Understanding Movies

by Louis Giannetti

• ISBN13: 9780131908369
• ISBN10: 0131908367
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

Author Biography

Louis Giannetti is a Professor of English and Film at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Photography	p. 1
Overview	p. 2
Realism and Formalism	p. 2
The Shots	p. 11
The Angles	p. 13
Light and Dark	p. 18
Color	p. 22
Lenses, Filters, Stocks, Opticals, and Gauges	p. 28
The Cinematographer	p. 36
Further Reading	p. 42
Mise en Scene	p. 43
Overview	p. 44
The Frame	p. 44
Composition and Design	p. 56
Territorial Space	p. 66
Proxemic Patterns	p. 77
Open and Closed Forms	p. 83
Further Reading	p. 92
Movement	p. 93
Overview	p. 94
Kinetics	p. 95
The Moving Camera	p. 112
Mechanical Distortions of Movement	p. 123
Further Reading	p. 132
Editing	p. 133
Overview	p. 134
Continuity	p. 134
D. W. Griffith and Classical Cutting	p. 138
Soviet Montage and the Formalist Tradition	p. 155
Andre Bazin and the Tradition of Realism	p. 168
Hitchcock's North by Northwest: Storyboard Version	p. 181
Further Reading	p. 206
Sound	p. 207
Overview	p. 208
Historical Background	p. 208
Sound Effects	p. 215
Music	p. 219
Musicals and Opera	p. 226
Spoken Language	p. 230
Further Reading	p. 244
Acting	p. 245
Overview	p. 246
Stage and Screen Acting	p. 247
The American Star System	p. 259
Styles of Acting	p. 276
Casting	p. 287
Further Reading	p. 293
Drama	p. 295
Overview	p. 296
Time, Space, and Language	p. 296
The Director	p. 305
Settings and Decor	p. 311
Costumes and Makeup	p. 324
Further Reading	p. 332
Story	p. 333
Overview	p. 334
Narratology	p. 336
The Spectator	p. 339
The Classical Paradigm	p. 343
Realistic Narratives	p. 348
Formalistic Narratives	p. 352
Nonfictional Narratives	p. 356
Genre and Myth	p. 362
Further Reading	p. 372
Writing	p. 373
Overview	p. 374
The Screenwriter	p. 374
The Screenplay	p. 383
North by Northwest: Reading Version	p. 387
Figurative Comparisons	p. 393
Point of View	p. 401
Literary Adaptations	p. 405
Further Reading	p. 409
Ideology	p. 411
Overview	p. 412
The Left-Center-Right Model	p. 417
Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity	p. 427
Feminism	p. 437
Gay Liberation	p. 444
Tone	p. 450
Further Reading	p. 453
Theory	p. 455
Overview	p. 456
Theories of Realism	p. 457
Formalist Film Theories	p. 464
The Auteur Theory	p. 470
Eclectic and Synthetic Theories	p. 477
Structuralism and Semiology	p. 480
Historiography	p. 487
Further Reading	p. 492
Synthesis: Citizen Kane	p. 493
Photography	p. 495
Mise en Scene	p. 499
Movement	p. 501
Editing	p. 505
Sound	p. 507
Acting	p. 509
Drama	p. 511
Story	p. 516
Writing	p. 518
Ideology	p. 522
Theory	p. 524
Further Reading	p. 529
Glossary	p. 531
Index	p. 545
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