02202cam a2200181 a 4500 7518 7518 0130408131 (pbk.) 9780130408136 PN1994 .G35 Giannetti, Louis D.(ed.) Understanding movies / Louis Giannetti. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2002. xiii, 556 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes Index 1. Photography. Realism and formalism -- The shots -- The angles -- Light and dark -- Color -- Lenses, filters, stocks, opticals, and gauges -- The cinematographer -- 2. Mise en scène. The frame -- Composition and design -- Territorial space -- Proxemic patterns -- Open and closed forms -- 3. Movement. Kinetics -- The moving camera -- Mechanical distortions of movement -- 4. Editing. 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 -- 5. Sound. Historical background -- Sound effects -- Music -- Musicals and opera -- Spoken language -- 6. Acting. Stage and screen acting -- The American star system -- Styles of acting -- Casting -- 7. Drama. Time, space, and language -- The director -- Settings and decor -- Costumes and makeup -- 8. Story. Narratology -- The spectator -- The classical paradigm -- Realistic narratives -- Formalistic narratives -- Nonfictional narratives -- Genre and myth -- 9. Writing. The screenwriter -- The screenplay -- North by Northwest : reading version -- Figurative comparisons -- Point of view -- Literary adaptations -- 10. Ideology. The left-center-right model -- Culture, religion, and ethnicity -- Feminism -- Gay liberation -- Tone -- 11. Theory. Theories of realism -- Formalist film theories -- The Auteur theory -- Eclectic and synthetic theories -- Structuralism and semiology -- Historiography -- 12. Synthesis : Citizen Kane. Photography -- Mise en scène -- Movement -- Editing -- Sound -- Acting -- Drama -- Story -- Writing -- Ideology -- Theory. Motion pictures. BK 0 0 0 0 REF MUCGM MUCGM GEN 2014-01-25 0 PN1994 .G35 39297 2021-01-25 00:00:00 2021-01-25 BK