Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film / Edition 4 available in Paperback
Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film / Edition 4
- ISBN-10:
- 0393913023
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393913026
- Pub. Date:
- 10/09/2012
- Publisher:
- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
- ISBN-10:
- 0393913023
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393913026
- Pub. Date:
- 10/09/2012
- Publisher:
- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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ISBN-13: | 9780393913026 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 10/09/2012 |
Edition description: | Fourth Edition |
Pages: | 640 |
Product dimensions: | 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Dave Monahan (M.F.A., Columbia University) is a Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His filmmaking work as a writer, director, and editor has been screened internationally in over seventy film festivals and has earned numerous awards, including the New Line Cinema Award for Most Original Film and the Seattle International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short Film.
Table of Contents
To StudentsPreface
Acknowledgments
1. WHAT IS A MOVIE?
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
Movies Manipulate Space and Time in Ways That Other
Art Forms Cannot
Movies Depend on Light
Movies Provide an Illusion of Movement
Movies Can Depict Worlds Convincingly
Movies Generally Result from a Complex, Expensive, and Highly Collaborative Process
TYPES OF MOVIES
Nonfiction Films
Narrative Films
Animated Films
Experimental Films
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS
A NOTE ON "CASE STUDIES"
FOR FURTHER READING
2. FORM AND NARRATIVE
WHAT IS FORM?
PRINCIPLES OF FILM FORM
Form and Expectations
Form and Patterns
Form and Themes
Coherence, Progression, and Unity and Balance
WHAT IS NARRATIVE?
Telling the Story
ELEMENTS OF NARRATIVE
Story and Plot
Order
Events: Hubs and Satellites
Duration
Suspense versus Surprise
Frequency
Characters
Setting
Point of View
Scope
ANALYZING NARRATIVE
John Ford's Stagecoach
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS
FOR FURTHER READING
3. MISE-EN-SCÈNE AND DESIGN
WHAT IS MISE-EN-SCÈNE?
COMPOSITION AND MISE-EN-SCÈNE
Framing: What We See on the Screen
Kinesis: What Moves on the Screen
ANALYZING MISE-EN-SCÈNE
Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game
WHAT IS DESIGN?
PROCESS AND ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
Roles of the Art Director and the Production Designer
Setting
Lighting
Costume, Makeup, and Hairstyle
International Styles and Development
ANALYZING DESIGN
Todd Solondz's Happiness
Sam Mendes's American Beauty
Michael Almereyda's Hamlet
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS
FOR FURTHER READING
4. CINEMATOGRAPHY
WHAT IS CINEMATOGRAPHY?
THE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The D.P.'s Responsibilities
CINEMATOGRAPHIC PROPERTIES OF THE SHOT
Film Stock
Lighting
Lenses
FRAMING OF THE SHOT
Visualization and Composition
Types of Shots
Depth
Camera Angle and Height
Scale
Camera Movement
SPEED AND LENGTH OF THE SHOT
SPECIAL EFFECTS CINEMATOGRAPHY
ANALYZING CINEMATOGRAPHY
Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS
FOR FURTHER READING
5. ACTING
WHAT IS ACTING?
The Paradox of Acting
Early Screen-Acting Styles
D. W. Griffith and Lillian Gish
Konstantin Stanislavsky and Method Acting
Bertolt Brecht
The Influence of Sound
Movie Stars in the Golden Age of Hollywood
Screen Acting Today
CASTING ACTORS
Factors Involved in Casting
ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE
Types of Roles
Preparing for Roles
Naturalistic and Nonnaturalistic Styles
Improvisational Acting
Directors and Actors
HOW FILMMAKING AFFECTS ACTING
Framing, Composition, Lighting, and the Long Take
The Camera and the Close-Up
ANALYZING ACTING
Barbara Stanwyck in King Vidor's Stella Dallas
Maggie Smith in Jack Clayton's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS
FOR FURTHER READING
6. EDITING
WHAT IS EDITING?
Continuity Editing
Discontinuity Editing
THE EDITOR'S RESPONSIBILITIES
Spatial, Temporal, and Visual Relationships between
Individual Shots
Rhythm
Mood
Ellipsis
Separation
Pattern
Slow Disclosure
CONVENTIONS OF EDITING
Establishing Shot
Match Cut
Point-of-View Editing
Parallel Editing
Shot/Reverse Shot
Jump Cut
Fade-In and Fade-Out
Dissolve
Wipe
Iris-In and Iris-Out
Flashback and Flashforward
Freeze Frame
Split-Screen
Montage
Conventions of Editing in Mark Sandrich's Top Hat
EDITING AND POSTPRODUCTION
THE EDITOR'S TOOLS
Editing with Rudimentary Equipment and with Upright and
Flatbed Machines
Linear Editing with Videotape
Nonlinear Digital Editing with Computerized Equipment
ANALYZING FILM EDITING
D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation
Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr.
Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS
FOR FURTHER READING
7. SOUND
WHAT IS SOUND?
PHYSICAL AND PERCEPTUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SOUND
SOURCES OF FILM SOUND
Diegetic or Nondiegetic
Internal or External
Onscreen or Offscreen
Synchronous or Asynchronous
Production or Postproduction
TYPES OF FILM SOUND
Vocal Sounds (Dialogue and Narration)
Environmental Sounds (Ambient Sound and Sound Effects)
Music
Silence
FUNCTIONS OF FILM SOUND
Audience Awareness
Audience Expectations
Rhythm
Character
Fidelity
Continuity
Emphasis
Juxtaposition
Montage
SOUND VERSUS SILENCE
Technological Challenges
Commercial Challenges
Aesthetic Challenges
SOUND PRODUCTION
Design
Recording
Editing
Mixing
ANALYZING FILM SOUND
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS
FOR FURTHER READING
8. WRITING ABOUT MOVIES
JOINING THE CRITICAL CONVERSATION ABOUT MOVIES
FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES
Summarizing Plot
Analyzing Shots, Scenes, and Sequences
Taking Notes
Taking Advantage of Tape, DVD, and the Internet
Writing Descriptively
Making an Argument
Incorporating Sources
ASSIGNMENTS AND STRATEGIES
Critical Analysis
Movie Review versus Critical Analysis
Research Paper
EXPLICIT, IMPLICIT, AND IDEOLOGICAL MEANINGS
GENRE STUDY
CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Interpretive Frameworks
Auteurism
Psychological Criticism
Ideological Criticism
APPLIED READINGS
Die Hard: Mimicry and Catharsis
Die Hard: Binary Oppositions
Wall Street: Freudianism
Vertigo: Cognitive Psychology
Rear Window: Auteurism
Metropolis: Marxism
Thelma and Louise: Feminism
Repo Man: Cultural Studies
THE WRITING PROCESS
Prewriting: Discovering What You Want to Say
Generating Text
Revising
FOR FURTHER READING
SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER: "MODERN INDEMNITY" BY JAMES ARNETT
APPENDIX: OVERVIEW OF HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
THE STUDIO SYSTEM
Organization before 1931
Organization after 1931
Organization During the Golden Age
Decline of the Studio System
THE INDEPENDENT SYSTEM
Financing in the Industry
Marketing and Distribution
FOR FURTHER READING AND VIEWING
Glossary
Permissions and Acknowledgements
Index