How Movies Work

PART Ⅰ. FILM AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD 1. Film Appreciation = 2 Saturday Night at the Movies = 2 Critical Approaches to Film Appreciation = 8 Electric Shadows = 41 2. Parts and Wholes = 45 Fragmentation and Synthesis = 45 Film As a Language = 54 3. Primary Categories = 59 The Narrative Film = 59 The Nonfiction Film = 79 The Animated Film = 84 The Avant-garde Film = 89 A Beautiful Friendship = 95 4. Montage and Mise-en-Scène in the Narrative Him = 97 Organizing the Filmed World = 97 Citizen Kane = 102 Close Encounters = 110 PART Ⅱ. FROM SHOT TO SEQUENCE 1. Raw Materials = 120 The Camera and the Eye = 120 Film = 127 Lenses, Exposure, and Focus = 132 Camera Equipment = 140 Lights = 148 2. The Frame = 157 The Perimeter = 157 Aspect Ratio and the Shape of the Frame = 162 3-D = 166 Composition = 167 3. Black-and-White and Color = 178 Black-and-White = 178 Black-and-White Versus Color = 182 Color = 184 4. The Soundtrack = 191 The Ear and the Microphone = 191 Sound Please! = 192 Synchronization = 196 Sound and the Camera = 198 Creating in Sound = 199 5. The Shot = 201 Takes and Shots = 201 Shot Description = 202 Pivoting and Moving the Camera = 211 Specialized Functions and Characteristics = 218 Shot Transitions = 222 Shot Relations = 225 The Moving Camera = 234 6. The Scene = 243 Dramatic Unity and the Task of the Scene = 243 King Kong: The Scream Test = 247 Hiroshima, mon amour: The Twitching Hands = 253 7. The Sequence = 264 October: The Raising of the Bridges = 265 The Godfather: The Baptism = 275 PART Ⅲ. THE FILM ARTIST AND THE MOVE BUSINESS 1. Who Makes a Movie? = 288 The Stages of Production = 288 Authorship, Design, and Execution = 291 2. Development = 302 The Writer and the Screenplay = 302 Agents and Story Editors = 311 The Producer, the Studio, and the Money = 315 The Legal Department = 321 The "Go" = 326 3. Pre-production = 327 Casting = 327 Location Scouting = 328 The Final Budget and the Shooting Schedule = 329 Research = 331 Production Design = 333 Costumes = 351 Testing = 361 4. Production = 362 The Director = 363 The Actor = 367 The Cinematographer = 376 Makeup = 384 Production and Mechanical Special Effects = 390 Choreography = 394 Sound Recording = 397 The Production Team = 402 5. Post-production = 410 Special Effects Cinematography = 411 Film Editing = 435 Music = 447 Sound Editing and the Stereo Mix = 459 The Laboratory = 474 6. Distribution = 481 Theatrical and Nontheatrical Distribution = 481 Ratings, Previews, and Marketing = 482 Exhibition, Revenues, and Archiving = 488 Film and Society = 495 Conclusion = 519 For Further Reading = 523 A Note to the Instructor = 531 Glossary of Key Terms = 539 Index = 559

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