Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film

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Cover (Looking At Movies: An Introduction to Film)......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title......Page 3 Copyright......Page 5 About the Authors......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 To Students......Page 18 Preface......Page 20 Acknowledgments......Page 24 Chapter 1 - Looking at Movies......Page 26 Looking at Movies......Page 27 What Is a Movie?......Page 28 Ways of Looking at Movies......Page 31 Chapter 2 - Principles of Film Form......Page 60 Film Form......Page 61 Form and Expectations......Page 64 Patterns......Page 66 Fundamentals of Film Form......Page 70 Realism and Antirealism......Page 80 Cinematic Language......Page 84 Looking at Film Form: Donnie Darko......Page 86 Chapter 3 - Types of Movies......Page 92 The Idea of Narrative......Page 93 Types of Movies......Page 96 Hybrid Movies......Page 108 Genre......Page 110 Six Major American Genres......Page 116 Evolution and Transformation of Genre......Page 133 What about Animation?......Page 136 Looking at the Types of Movies in The Lego Movie......Page 140 Composition......Page 221 Looking at Mise-en-Scène......Page 229 Chapter 4 - Elements of Narrative......Page 146 What Is Narrative?......Page 147 The Screenwriter......Page 160 Elements of Narrative......Page 161 Looking at Narrative: John Ford’s Stagecoach......Page 175 Chapter 5 - Mise-en-Scène......Page 188 What Is Mise-en-Scène?......Page 189 Design......Page 198 Chapter 6 - Cinematography......Page 236 The Director of Photography......Page 237 Cinematographic Properties of the Shot......Page 240 Framing of the Shot......Page 258 Speed and Length of the Shot......Page 283 Special Effects......Page 286 Looking at Cinematography: Richard Linklater's Boyhood......Page 290 Chapter 7 - Acting......Page 296 What Is Acting?......Page 297 The Evolution of Screen Acting......Page 304 Casting Actors......Page 318 Aspects of Performance......Page 320 How Filmmaking Affects Acting......Page 328 Looking at Acting......Page 334 Chapter 8 - Editing......Page 342 What Is Editing?......Page 343 The Film Editor......Page 345 Major Approaches to Editing: Continuity and Discontinuity......Page 358 Looking at Editing......Page 378 Chapter 9 - Sound......Page 388 What Is Sound?......Page 389 Sound Production......Page 391 Describing Film Sound......Page 394 Sources of Film Sound......Page 396 Types of Film Sound......Page 399 Functions of Film Sound......Page 414 Looking at (and Listening to) Sound in Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane......Page 422 Chapter 10 - Film History......Page 430 What Is Film History?......Page 431 Basic Approaches to Studying Film History......Page 432 A Short Overview of Film History......Page 434 1947–Present: New Cinemas in Great Britain, Europe, and Asia......Page 458 1965–1995: The New American Cinema......Page 472 Looking at Citizen Kane and Its Place in Film History......Page 477 Chapter 11 - How the Movies Are Made......Page 482 Money, Methods, and Materials: The Whole Equation......Page 483 Film and Digital Technologies: An Overview......Page 485 How a Movie Is Made......Page 491 The Studio System......Page 493 The Independent System......Page 499 Financing in the Industry......Page 502 Marketing and Distribution......Page 504 Production in Hollywood Today......Page 508 Glossary......Page 518 Permissions Acknowledgments......Page 532 Index......Page 536