Understanding movies /
Giannetti, Louis D.
Understanding movies / Louis Giannetti. - 11th ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, 2008. - xi, 611 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Filmamakers on film .
Includes Index
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
1: Photography --
Overview --
Realism and formalism --
Shots --
Angles --
Light and dark --
Color --
Lenses, filters, and stocks --
Special effects --
Cinematographer --
Further reading --
2: Mise en Scene --
Overview --
Frame --
Composition and design --
Territorial space --
Proxemic patterns --
Open and closed forms --
Further reading --
3: Movement --
Overview --
Kinetics --
Moving camera --
Mechanical distortions of movement --
Further reading --
4: Editing --
Overview --
Continuity --
D W Griffith and classical cutting --
Soviet montage and the formalist tradition --
Andre Bazin and the tradition of realism --
Hitchcock's North by Northwest: storyboard version --
Further reading --
5: Sound --
Overview --
Historical background --
Sound effects --
Music --
Musicals --
Spoken language --
Further reading --
6: Acting --
Overview --
Stage and screen acting --
American star system --
Styles of acting --
Casting --
Further reading --
7: Drama --
Overview --
Time, space, and language --
Director --
Settings and decor --
Costumes and makeup --
Further reading --
8: Story --
Overview --
Narratology --
Spectator --
Classical paradigm --
Realistic narratives --
Formalistic narratives --
Nonfictional narratives --
Genre and myth --
Further reading --
9: Writing --
Overview --
Screenwriter --
Screenplay --
North by Northwest: reading version --
Figurative comparisons --
Point of view --
Literary adaptations --
Further reading --
10: Ideology --
Overview --
Left-center-right model --
Culture, religion, and ethnicity --
Feminism --
Queer cinema --
Tone --
Further reading --
11: Critique --
Overview --
Theories of realism --
Formalist film theories --
Auteur theory --
Eclectic and synthesizing approaches --
Structuralism and semiology --
Historiography --
Further reading --
12: Synthesis: Citizen Kane --
Overview --
Photography --
Mise en Scene --
Movement --
Editing --
Sound --
Acting --
Drama --
Story --
Writing --
Ideology --
Critique --
Further reading --
Glossary --
Index.
9780132336994 0132336995
Motion pictures.--Films
PN1994 / .G35
Understanding movies / Louis Giannetti. - 11th ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, 2008. - xi, 611 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Filmamakers on film .
Includes Index
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
1: Photography --
Overview --
Realism and formalism --
Shots --
Angles --
Light and dark --
Color --
Lenses, filters, and stocks --
Special effects --
Cinematographer --
Further reading --
2: Mise en Scene --
Overview --
Frame --
Composition and design --
Territorial space --
Proxemic patterns --
Open and closed forms --
Further reading --
3: Movement --
Overview --
Kinetics --
Moving camera --
Mechanical distortions of movement --
Further reading --
4: Editing --
Overview --
Continuity --
D W Griffith and classical cutting --
Soviet montage and the formalist tradition --
Andre Bazin and the tradition of realism --
Hitchcock's North by Northwest: storyboard version --
Further reading --
5: Sound --
Overview --
Historical background --
Sound effects --
Music --
Musicals --
Spoken language --
Further reading --
6: Acting --
Overview --
Stage and screen acting --
American star system --
Styles of acting --
Casting --
Further reading --
7: Drama --
Overview --
Time, space, and language --
Director --
Settings and decor --
Costumes and makeup --
Further reading --
8: Story --
Overview --
Narratology --
Spectator --
Classical paradigm --
Realistic narratives --
Formalistic narratives --
Nonfictional narratives --
Genre and myth --
Further reading --
9: Writing --
Overview --
Screenwriter --
Screenplay --
North by Northwest: reading version --
Figurative comparisons --
Point of view --
Literary adaptations --
Further reading --
10: Ideology --
Overview --
Left-center-right model --
Culture, religion, and ethnicity --
Feminism --
Queer cinema --
Tone --
Further reading --
11: Critique --
Overview --
Theories of realism --
Formalist film theories --
Auteur theory --
Eclectic and synthesizing approaches --
Structuralism and semiology --
Historiography --
Further reading --
12: Synthesis: Citizen Kane --
Overview --
Photography --
Mise en Scene --
Movement --
Editing --
Sound --
Acting --
Drama --
Story --
Writing --
Ideology --
Critique --
Further reading --
Glossary --
Index.
9780132336994 0132336995
Motion pictures.--Films
PN1994 / .G35