Elements of Films

Preface = ⅶ Prologue: The Conjurer’s Art = 1 One: Story and Script = 9 Relationship between script and film = 11 Theme = 23 Form and structure = 27 The elements of a script = 43 The visual images = 43 The sound = 46 Relationships within the script = 48 Summary = 49 Films for study = 49 Supplementary reading = 50 Two: Image = 51 The cinematic quality of the image = 53 The elements of cinematography = 54 Film — the raw material of cinema = 54 Composition = 61 Illumination = 68 Color = 75 The tools of cinematography = 76 Camera = 77 Lens = 80 Lighting and lighting equipment = 87 Films for study = 88 Supplementary reading = 89 Three: Sound = 91 The mechanics of film sound = 92 The elements of film sound = 93 Synchronous sound — dialogue = 93 Dubbing = 98 The mix = 101 The art of film sound = 102 Dialogue recording = 102 Voice tracks = 104 Creative use of sound effects = 109 The art of film music = 112 Silence = 117 Films for study = 118 Supplementary reading = 118 Four: Editing = 119 The mechanics of film editing = 121 The art of film editing = 124 Time = 125 Rhythm = 128 Visual and aural relationships = 131 Montage = 141 Effective editing = 142 Films for study = 143 Supplementary reading = 144 Five: The Director = 145 The role of the contemporary director = 146 The function of the director = 148 The director and the writer = 148 The director and the cinematographer = 149 The director and the crew = 150 The director and the actor = 152 The director and the editor = 156 Elements of style = 156 Subject material = 159 Script = 160 Images and movement = 161 Acting performances = 164 Pace = 165 The editing = 166 Supportive elements = 166 The director as a creative artist = 167 Literature = 167 The visual art = 168 Editing and sound = 169 Films for study = 169 Supplementary reading = 170 Six: Acting for Film = 171 The historical development of screen acting = 173 The elements of acting for film = 175 The separation of actor from audience = 175 The camera and the actor = 176 Performance out of chronological sequence = 177 Performance in small, separate units = 178 The reconstruction of performance through editing = 178 The architecture of a total performance = 179 The projection of internal conviction = 179 Physical performance = 180 Intellectual communication = 181 The actor as a creative artist = 182 Films for study = 184 Supplementary reading = 184 Seven: The Contemporary Filmmaker = 185 The rise of the contemporary cinema = 187 Vittorio De Sica = 188 Luis Buñuel = 191 Federico Fellini = 194 Michelangelo Antonioni = 196 Ingmar Bergman = 200 Akira Kurosawa = 203 Alain Resnais = 206 Stanley Kubrick = 209 François Truffaut = 212 Jean-Luc Godard = 215 Robert Altman = 217 Francis Ford Coppola = 219 Louis Malle = 220 Martin Scorsese = 220 Woody Allen = 221 Lina Wertmuller = 222 Films for study = 224 Supplementary reading = 225 Eight: Film Criticism = 227 The function of criticism = 229 Film criticism = 234 Qualifications of the film critic = 235 Criticism and reportage = 235 Style = 238 Content = 240 Contemporary film critics = 244 Penelope Gilliatt = 244 John Russell Taylor = 247 Dwight Macdonald = 251 Norman Mailer = 258 Wilfrid Sheed = 261 Stanley Kauffman = 264 Andrew Sarris = 266 John Simon = 273 Pauline Kael = 276 Supplementary reading = 283 Illustration acknowledgments = 285 Index = 289

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