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ISBN 10: 0070064466
ISBN 13: 9780070064461
Author: David Bordwell, Kristen Thompson
Film art an introduction 6th Table of contents:
Part One: Film Art and Filmmaking
- Chapter 1: Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business
- What is film art?
- The film industry: Production, Distribution, Exhibition
- Modes of Production (e.g., large-scale, independent, small-scale)
- Creative Decisions in Filmmaking
Part Two: Film Form
- Chapter 2: The Significance of Film Form
- The Concept of Form in Film
- Principles of Film Form (e.g., function, similarity and repetition, difference and variation, development, unity and disunity)
- Chapter 3: Narrative as a Formal System
- Principles of Narrative Construction (e.g., causality, time, space)
- Narration: The Flow of Story Information
- Narrative Conventions
- Sample Analysis: Citizen Kane
- Chapter 4: Non-Narrative Formal Systems
- Types of Non-Narrative Form (e.g., categorical, rhetorical, abstract, associational)
- Sample Analyses of Non-Narrative Films (e.g., Olympia, Part 2, The River, Ballet Mécanique, A Movie)
Part Three: Film Style
- Chapter 5: The Shot: Mise-en-Scène
- What is Mise-en-Scène?
- Aspects of Mise-en-Scène (setting, costume and makeup, lighting, staging/acting)
- Mise-en-Scène in Space and Time
- Sample Analysis: Our Hospitality
- Chapter 6: The Shot: Cinematography
- The Photographic Image (e.g., tonality, speed of motion, perspective relations)
- Framing (e.g., aspect ratio, camera position, mobile framing)
- Duration of the Image: The Long Take
- Chapter 7: The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing
- What Editing Is
- Dimensions of Film Editing (e.g., graphic, rhythmic, spatial, temporal)
- Continuity Editing (e.g., axis of action, crosscutting, match on action)
- Alternatives to Continuity Editing (e.g., jump cuts, non-diegetic inserts)
- Chapter 8: Sound in the Cinema
- The Powers of Sound
- Fundamentals of Film Sound (e.g., loudness, pitch, timbre)
- Dimensions of Film Sound (e.g., rhythm, fidelity, space, time)
- Functions of Film Sound
- Sample Analysis: A Man Escaped
- Chapter 9: Summary: Style as a Formal System
- The Concept of Style
- Analyzing Film Style
- Revisiting Citizen Kane’s Style
Part Four: Types of Films
- Chapter 10: Film Genres
- Defining Genre
- Genre Conventions
- Genre Cycles
- Genre and the Viewer
- Examples of various genres
- Chapter 11: Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films
- Documentary Film (e.g., history, types, rhetorical strategies)
- Experimental Film (e.g., forms, techniques, purposes)
- Animated Film (e.g., types of animation, principles)
Part Five: Critical Analysis of Films
- Chapter 12: Film Criticism: Sample Analyses
- Introduction to Writing a Critical Analysis of a Film
- Detailed Sample Analyses of various films, often demonstrating different analytical approaches (e.g., Classical Hollywood films like His Girl Friday, Stagecoach, North by Northwest, Hannah and Her Sisters, Desperately Seeking Susan; Narrative Alternatives like Day of Wrath, Last Year at Marienbad, Tokyo Story, Innocence Unprotected; Documentary Form and Style like High School, Man with a Movie Camera; Animated Film like Clock Cleaners, Duck Amuck, Fuji; and sections on Form, Style, and Ideology with films like Meet Me in St. Louis, Raging Bull, Tout va bien).
Part Six: Film Art and Film History
- Chapter 13: Historical Changes in Film Art: Conventions and Choices, Tradition and Trends
- Early Cinema (1890s-1910s)
- The Classical Hollywood Cinema (1917-1960)
- Post-WWII European Cinema (e.g., Italian Neorealism, French New Wave)
- New Hollywood and Contemporary World Cinema
- Technological Changes and their Impact on Film Art
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