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9780571211258

On Film-Making : An Introduction to the Craft of the Director

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  • ISBN13:

    9780571211258

  • ISBN10:

    0571211259

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-08-31
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Summary

Alexander 'Sandy' Mackendrick directed such classic Ealing comedies as The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers, plus a Hollywood masterpiece, Sweet Smell of Success. But after retiring from film-making in 1969, he then spent nearly twenty-five years teaching his craft at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

Author Biography

Alexander Mackendrick directed several films, including The Man in the White Suit, which earned him an Oscar Nomination for Screenwriting. He died in 1993.

Paul Cronin is the editor of Herzog on Herzog.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Martin Scorsese
Introduction xiii
Prologue xxxv
Part One: Dramatic Construction
The Pre-Verbal Language of Cinema
3(6)
What Is a Story?
9(13)
Exposition
22(5)
Modernist Trends
27(9)
A Technique for Having Ideas
36(4)
Slogans for the Screenwriter's Wall
40(4)
Exercises for the Student of Dramatic Construction
44(22)
When Not to Write a Shooting Script
66(10)
Once Upon a Time
76(10)
Activity Versus Action
86(6)
Dramatic Irony
92(5)
William Archer Revisited
97(14)
Plausibility and Willing Suspension of Disbelief
111(5)
Density and Subplots in Sweet Smell of Success
116(44)
Cutting Dialogue
160(5)
The Solomon Exercise
165(14)
The Director and the Actor
179(18)
Part Two: Film Grammar
The Invisible Imaginary Ubiquitous Winged Witness
197(3)
How to Be Meaningless
200(4)
Mental Geography
204(5)
Condensing Screen Time
209(9)
Drawing Lesson
218(4)
Point of View
222(13)
The Axis
235(16)
Shot-to-Shot Relationships
251(7)
Camera Coverage
258(14)
Camera Movement
272(8)
Citizen Kane
280(9)
Epilogue 289

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