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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Understanding movies</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Giannetti, Louis D.(ed.)</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Upper Saddle River, NJ</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Prentice Hall</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2002</dateIssued>
    <edition>9th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xiii, 556 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Louis Giannetti.</note>
  <note>Includes Index</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Motion pictures</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">PN1994 .G35</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0130408131 (pbk.)</identifier>
  <identifier type="issn">9780130408136</identifier>
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