The World Of Film And Filmmakers

1 THE ORIGINS OF THE CINEMA Magic Pictures: The Image Moves = 8 Capturing Life: Animated Photographs = 10 The First Picture Show = 12 Farce, Magic and History: Early French Cinema = 14 Film Discovers a Language: D. W. Griffith = 16 Movies Become Big Business = 18 Generation of Monsters: The German Expressionists = 20 Revolution: Soviet Film in the 1920s = 22 Hollywood's Golden Era: The 1920s = 24 The Men Who Made the Movies = 26 France Resurgent: Impressionism and Surrealism = 28 The Sound Revolution = 30 2 FIFTY YEARS OF SOUND CINEMA The Thirties = 34 The Forties = 42 The Fifties = 50 The Sixties = 60 The Seventies = 70 Television and Film = 78 3 THE DREAM INDUSTRY Hollywood: The Rise of The Studios = 84 Putting on Style: The Hollywood Studios = 86 The Independents: Producers outside The Studios = 88 Realism versus The Dream Factory = 90 The Star System: Screen Idols = 92 Shaping the Modern Cinema = 94 4 FILM MAKING TODAY How the Camera Works = 98 How the Projector Works = 100 Capturing Colour = 102 Film Magic: Special Effects = 104 Stretching the Image: The Widescreen Scene = 106 Ways of Using Sound = 108 How a Film is Made Costing the Film = 112 Written By... = 114 The Producer = 116 The Director = 118 The Actors = 120 Set versus Location = 122 The Production Unit = 124 The Art Department = 126 Lighting: The Cameraman/Cinematographer = 128 Capturing Sound = 130 The Editors = 132 The Laboratory = 134 Adding Music and Dialogue = 136 Selling Movies: Publicity and Advertising = 138 Release: Promotion and Distribution = 140 Censorship = 142 5 WAYS OF LOOKING AT FILM Appreciation through Understanding = 146 Film Criticism and the Audience = 148 1 FILM AND SOCIETY = 150 Who Makes Films and Why = 152 Who Sees Films and Why = 154 Film Reflects Society = 156 Film Affects Society = 158 Screen Sex and Violence = 160 2 FILM GENRES = 162 The Western = 164 The Comedy = 166 The Romance = 168 The War Film = 170 The Epic = 172 The Musical = 174 The Thriller = 176 The Animated Film = 178 Horror and Science Fiction = 180 The Documentary = 182 The Political Film = 184 3 THE DIRECTOR AS AUTEUR = 186 John Ford and Howard Hawks = 188 Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock = 190 Ingmar Bergman = 192 Jean-Luc Godard = 194 4 FILM LANGUAGE = 196 'Reality' in Film = 198 Montage Again = 200 'Modernity' in Film = 202 The Decline of the Narrative = 204 Future Directions = 206 6 REFERENCE SECTION A-Z FILMMAKERS AND ACTORS = 210 GLOSSARY OF FILM TERMS = 232 Further Reading = 235 INDEX = 236 Acknowledgements = 240

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