How to read a film

Introduction = 12 Preface to the Second Edition = 17 1 Film As An Art = 22 The Nature of Art = 22 Ways of Looking at Art = 28 The Spectrum of Abstraction The Modes of Discourse The ``Rapports de Production'' Film, Recording, and the Other Arts = 38 Film, Photography, and Painting Film and the Novel Film and Theater Film and Music Film and the Environmental Arts The Structure of Art = 62 2 Technology: Image And Sound = 68 Art and Technology = 68 Image Technology Sound Technology The Lens = 78 The Camera = 86 The Filmstock = 100 Negatives, Prints, and Generations Aspect Ratio Grain, Gauge, and Speed Color, Contrast, and Tone The Soundtrack = 124 Postproduction = 128 Editing Mixing and Looping Special Effects Opticals, the Lab, and the Post House Video and Film = 143 Projection = 145 3 The Language Of Film: Signs And Syntax = 152 Signs = 152 The Physiology of Perception Denotative and Connotative Meaning Syntax = 172 Codes Mise-en-Scene The Framed Image The Diachronic Shot Sound Montage 4 The Shape of Film History = 228 Movies/Film/Cinema = 228 ``Movies'': Economics = 232 ``Film'': Politics = 261 ``Cinema'': Esthetics = 284 Creating an Art: Lumiere Versus Melies = 285 The Silent Feature: Realism Versus Expressionism = 288 Hollywood: Genre Versus Auteur = 294 Neorealism and After: Hollywood Versus the World = 301 The New Wave and the Third World: Entertainment Versus Communication = 313 The Postmodern Sequel: Democracy, = 358 Technology, End of Cinema 5 Film Theory: Form And Function = 388 The Critic = 388 The Poet and the Philosopher: Lindsay and Munsterberg = 391 Expressionism and Realism: Arnheim and Kracauer = 394 Montage: Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Balazs, and Formalism = 400 Mise en Scene: Neorealism, Bazin, and Godard = 406 Film Speaks and Acts: Metz and Contemporary Theory = 417 6 Media: In The Middle Of Things = 428 Community = 428 Print and Electronic Media = 430 The Technology of Mechanical and Electronic Media = 440 Radio and Records = 460 Television and Video = 465 ``Broadcasting'': The Business = 469 ``Television'': The Art = 480 ``TV'': The Virtual Family = 505 7 Multimedia: The Digital Revolution = 518 The Digital Revolution = 518 The Myth of Multimedia = 534 The Myth of Virtual Reality = 543 The Myth of Cyberspace = 550 ``What Is to be Done?'' = 558 I FILM AND MEDIA: A CHRONOLOGY = 570 To 1895: Prehistory = 570 1896--1915: The Birth of Film = 572 1916--1930: Silent Film, The Births of Radio and Sound Film = 573 1931--1945: The Great Age of Hollywood and Radio = 575 1946--1960: The Growth of Television = 578 1961--1980: The Media World = 581 1981--Present: The Digital World = 588 II READING ABOUT FILM AND MEDIA = 604 Part One: A Basic Library = 605 Part Two: Information = 637 INDEX Topics = 644 People = 652 Titles = 663

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