Understanding Movies

PREFACE = ⅸ Acknowledgments = ⅹ 1. PHOTOGRAPHY = 1 Summary = 2 Realism and Formalism = 2 The Shots = 10 The Angles = 12 Light and Dark = 17 Color = 20 Lenses, Filters, Stocks, Opticals, and Gauges = 26 The Cinematographer = 33 Further Reading = 38 2. MISE EN SCÈNE = 39 Summary = 40 The Frame = 40 Composition and Design = 52 Territorial Space = 62 Proxemic Patterns = 72 Open and Closed Forms = 77 Further Reading = 87 3. MOVEMENT = 89 Summary = 90 Kinetics = 90 The Moving Camera = 106 Mechanical Distortions of Movement = 119 Further Reading = 128 4. EDITING = 129 Summary = 130 Continuity = 130 D. W. Griffith and Classical Cutting = 133 Soviet Montage and the Formalist Tradition = 148 André Bazin and the Tradition of Realism = 160 Hitchcock's North by Northwest: Storyboard Version = 171 Further Reading = 195 5. SOUND = 197 Summary = 198 Historical Background = 198 Sound Effects = 205 Music = 210 Musicals and Opera = 217 Spoken Language = 221 Further Reading = 233 6. ACTING = 235 Summary = 236 Stage and Screen Acting = 237 The American Star System = 249 Styles of Acting = 264 Casting = 275 Further Reading = 280 7. DRAMA = 281 Summary = 282 Time, Space, and Language = 282 The Director = 291 Settings and Décor = 297 Costumes and Makeup = 310 Further Reading = 317 8. STORY = 319 Summary = 320 Narratology = 320 The Spectator = 324 The Classical Paradigm = 328 Realistic Narratives = 333 Formalistic Narratives = 336 Nonfictional Narratives = 339 Genre and Myth = 345 Further Reading = 355 9. LITERATURE = 357 Summary = 358 The Screenwriter = 358 The Screenplay = 364 North by Northwest: Reading Version = 369 Figurative Comparisons = 375 Point of View = 381 Literary Adaptations = 386 Further Reading = 390 10. IDEOLOGY = 391 Summary = 392 The Left-Center-Right Model = 397 Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity = 407 Feminism = 415 Gay Liberation = 423 Tone = 428 Further Reading = 431 11. THEORY = 433 Summary = 434 Theories of Realism = 434 Formalist Film Theories = 441 The Auteur Theory = 445 Eclectic and Synthetic Theories = 451 Structuralism and Semiology = 454 Historiography = 461 Further Reading = 465 12. SYNTHESIS: Citizen Kane = 467 Photography = 469 Mise en Scène = 473 Movement = 475 Editing = 479 Sound = 481 Acting = 483 Drama = 485 Story = 490 Literature = 492 Ideology = 496 Theory = 498 Further Reading = 503 GLOSSARY = 505 INDEX = 519

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