The Sights and Sounds of Cinema and Television

FOREWORD = xi PREFACE: Some History and Some Acknowledgments = xiii INTRODUCTION = xv THE SIGHTS Chapter One = 3 The Basic Building Blocks Some Cognitive Elements A Form of Language Chapter Two = 11 Some Words of the Cinema Language Different Kinds of Shots The Necessity of Choice and Intent What the Camera Position Means to Us The Impossibility of Dispassionate Objectivity Chapter Three = 22 The Shape of the Frame The Shapes in the Frame Chapter Four = 30 Still Versus Motion Lines That Move Chapter Five = 36 Light and Space Chapter Six = 51 Space and Optics Chapter Seven = 59 Sequences and Their Punctuation Fades, Dissolves, and Further Exotica Chapter Eight = 67 Motion Chapter Nine = 78 Rhythm, Pace, and How They Appear in Film Chapter Ten = 86 Texture Light and Shade—Contrast, Values That Advance or Recede, Values Affecting Mood Mass, Composition, Symmetry Chapter Eleven = 95 Composition in Motion Editing and Timing Chapter Twelve = 104 Colors Hot and Cool Colors Our Response to Colors Colors and Symbolic Meanings Chapter Thirteen = 109 Lighting Color Film with Colored Light Unexpected Characteristics of Color Film Composition in Color Editing Color THE SOUNDS Chapter Fourteen = 119 Brief History of Sound on Film Silent Films as Abstractions Chapter Fifteen = 125 The Characteristics of Music Some Applications of Music Chapter Sixteen = 130 The Nature and Qualities of Sound Effects and Speech Speech as Music Chapter Seventeen = 135 The Mutual Modification of Elements The Relationship Between Words and Pictures Our Attention Drawn to Movement The Relationship of Music to Pictures Accoustic Musical Films Chapter Eighteen = 145 Sound Effects Selective Perception of Sound and Visual Images SIGHTS AND SOUNDS TOGETHER: Film and Television Chapter Nineteen = 151 Structures and Compositions in Time Chapter Twenty = 155 Virtuosity The Process of Making an Artwork Style Chapter Twenty-one = 160 Learning to Perceive and to Recognize Style Learning to Make Judgments of Artworks in Film and in Television Chapter Twenty-two = 164 Physical Aspects of the Image The Qualities of the Television Image and Their Relationship to the Film Image Scanning Lines and Film Grain Chapter Twenty-three = 169 The Size of the Television Image and the Environment in Which It Is Viewed References to Film Chapter Twenty-four = 175 The Dramaturgy of Film and Television The Content of the Media Postscript = 181 Some Problems That Beset the Study of Film APPENDIX = 189 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY = 223 INDEX = 225

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