* New to the Third Edition | |
** Significantly revised for the Third Edition | |
Looking at Movies | |
Looking at Movies | |
What Is a Movie? | |
Ways of Looking at Movies | |
Principles of Film Form | |
Film Form | |
Form and Content | |
Form and Expectations | |
Patterns | |
Fundamentals of Film Form | |
Realism and Antirealism | |
Cinematic Language | |
Types of Movies | |
The Idea of Narrative | |
Types of Movies | |
Hybrid Movies | |
Genre | |
Six Major American Genres | |
Evolution and Transformation of Genre | |
What about Animation? | |
Elements of Narrative | |
What Is Narrative? | |
The Screenwriter | |
Elements of Narrative | |
Looking at Narrative: John Ford's Stagecoach | |
Mise-en-Scène | |
What Is Mise-en-Scène? | |
Design | |
Composition | |
Looking at Mise-en-Scène | |
Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow | |
Sam Mendes's American Beauty | |
Michael Almereyda's Hamlet | |
Cinematography | |
What Is Cinematography? | |
The Director of Photography | |
Cinematographic Properties of the Shot | |
Framing of the Shot | |
Speed and Length of the Shot | |
Special Effects | |
Acting | |
What Is Acting? | |
The Evolution of Screen Acting | |
Technology and Acting | |
Casting Actors | |
Aspects of Performance | |
How Filmmaking Affects Acting | |
Looking at Acting | |
Barbara Stanwyck in King Vidor's Stella Dallas | |
Hilary Swank in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby | |
Editing | |
What Is Editing? | |
The Film Editor | |
Major Approaches to Editing: Continuity and Discontinuity | |
Looking at Editing | |
Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's City of God | |
Sound | |
What Is Sound? | |
Sound Production | |
Describing Film Sound | |
Sources of Film Sound | |
Types of Film Sound | |
Functions of Film Sound | |
Sound in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane | |
Film History | |
What Is Film History? | |
Basic Approaches to Studying Film History | |
A Short Overview of Film History to 1947 | |
1947-Present: New Cinemas in Great Britain, Europe, and Asia | |
1965-1995: The New American Cinema | |
Filmmaking Technologies and Production Systems | |
The Whole Equation | |
Film, Video, and Digital Technologies: An Overview | |
How a Movie Is Made | |
The Studio System | |
The Independent System | |
Financing in the Industry | |
Marketing and Distribution | |
Production in Hollywood Today | |
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