Understanding movies / (Record no. 7519)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780132336994
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 0132336995
050 00 - CALL NUMBER
Classification number PN1994
Item number .G35
100 1# - AUTHOR
Personal name Giannetti, Louis D.
245 10 - TITLE
Title Understanding movies /
Statement of responsibility, etc Louis Giannetti.
250 ## - EDITION
Edition statement 11th ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION INFORMATION
Place of publication Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Name of publisher Pearson Education,
Year of publication 2008.
300 ## - DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xi, 611 p. :
Other physical details ill. (some col.) ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
440 ## - SERIES
SERIES Filmamakers on film
500 ## - NOTES
General note Includes Index
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Table of Content Preface --<br/>Acknowledgments --<br/>1: Photography --<br/>Overview --<br/>Realism and formalism --<br/>Shots --<br/>Angles --<br/>Light and dark --<br/>Color --<br/>Lenses, filters, and stocks --<br/>Special effects --<br/>Cinematographer --<br/>Further reading --<br/>2: Mise en Scene --<br/>Overview --<br/>Frame --<br/>Composition and design --<br/>Territorial space --<br/>Proxemic patterns --<br/>Open and closed forms --<br/>Further reading --<br/>3: Movement --<br/>Overview --<br/>Kinetics --<br/>Moving camera --<br/>Mechanical distortions of movement --<br/>Further reading --<br/>4: Editing --<br/>Overview --<br/>Continuity --<br/>D W Griffith and classical cutting --<br/>Soviet montage and the formalist tradition --<br/>Andre Bazin and the tradition of realism --<br/>Hitchcock's North by Northwest: storyboard version --<br/>Further reading --<br/>5: Sound --<br/>Overview --<br/>Historical background --<br/>Sound effects --<br/>Music --<br/>Musicals --<br/>Spoken language --<br/>Further reading --<br/>6: Acting --<br/>Overview --<br/>Stage and screen acting --<br/>American star system --<br/>Styles of acting --<br/>Casting --<br/>Further reading --<br/>7: Drama --<br/>Overview --<br/>Time, space, and language --<br/>Director --<br/>Settings and decor --<br/>Costumes and makeup --<br/>Further reading --<br/>8: Story --<br/>Overview --<br/>Narratology --<br/>Spectator --<br/>Classical paradigm --<br/>Realistic narratives --<br/>Formalistic narratives --<br/>Nonfictional narratives --<br/>Genre and myth --<br/>Further reading --<br/>9: Writing --<br/>Overview --<br/>Screenwriter --<br/>Screenplay --<br/>North by Northwest: reading version --<br/>Figurative comparisons --<br/>Point of view --<br/>Literary adaptations --<br/>Further reading --<br/>10: Ideology --<br/>Overview --<br/>Left-center-right model --<br/>Culture, religion, and ethnicity --<br/>Feminism --<br/>Queer cinema --<br/>Tone --<br/>Further reading --<br/>11: Critique --<br/>Overview --<br/>Theories of realism --<br/>Formalist film theories --<br/>Auteur theory --<br/>Eclectic and synthesizing approaches --<br/>Structuralism and semiology --<br/>Historiography --<br/>Further reading --<br/>12: Synthesis: Citizen Kane --<br/>Overview --<br/>Photography --<br/>Mise en Scene --<br/>Movement --<br/>Editing --<br/>Sound --<br/>Acting --<br/>Drama --<br/>Story --<br/>Writing --<br/>Ideology --<br/>Critique --<br/>Further reading --<br/>Glossary --<br/>Index.
650 #0 - SUBJECTS
Topical Term Motion pictures.
General subdivision Films
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Books
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