The Classical Hollywood Cinema

Acknowledgments = xi Preface = xiii Part One The classical Hollywood style, 1917-60 / David Bardwell = 1 1 An excessively obvious cinema = 3 2 Story causality and motivation = 12 3 Classical narration = 24 4 Time in the classical film = 42 5 Space in the classical film = 50 6 Shot and scene = 60 7 The bounds of difference = 70 Part Two The Hollywood mode of production to 1930 / Janet Staiger = 85 8 The Hollywood mode of production: its conditions of existence = 87 9 Standardization and differentiation: the reinforcement and dispersion of Hollywood's practices = 96 10 The director system: management in the first years = 113 11 The director-unit system: management of multiple-unit companies after 1909 = 121 12 The central producer system: centralized management after 1914 = 128 13 The division and order of production: the subdivision of the work from the first years through the 1920s = 142 Part Three The formulation of the classical style, 1909-28 / Kristin Thompson = 155 14 From primitive to classical = 157 15 The formulation of the classical narrative = 174 16 The continuity system = 194 17 Classical narrative space and the spectator's attention = 214 18 The stability of the classical approach after 1917 = 231 Part Four Film style and technology to 1930 = 241 19 Technology, style and mode of production / David Bordwell ; Janet Staiger = 243 20 Initial standardization of the basic technology / Kristin Thompson = 262 21 Major technological changes of the 1920s / Kristin Thompson = 281 22 The Mazda tests of 1928 / David Bordwell = 294 23 The introduction of sound / David Bordwell = 298 Part Five The Hollywood mode of production, 1930-60 / Janet Staiger = 309 24 The labor-force, financing and the mode of production = 311 25 The producer-unit system: management by specialization after 1931 = 320 26 The package-unit system: unit management after 1955 = 330 Part Six Film style and technology, 1930-60 / David Bardwell = 339 27 Deep-focus cinematography = 341 28 Technicolor = 353 29 Widescreen processes and stereophonic sound = 358 Part Seven Historical implications of the classical Hollywood cinema / David Bardwell ; Janet Staiger = 365 30 Since 1960: the persistence of a mode of film practice = 367 31 Alternative modes of film practice = 378 Envoi = 386 Appendix A The unbiased sample = 388 Appendix B A brief synopsis of the structure of the United States film industry, 1896-1960 = 397 Appendix C Principal structures of the US film industry, 1894-1930 = 401 Appendix D Lighting plots and descriptions = 404 Notes = 415 Select bibliography = 480 Photograph credits = 492 Index = 494

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