TY - BOOK AU - Giannetti,Louis D.(ed) TI - Understanding movies SN - 0130408131 (pbk.) SN - 978013040 AV - PN1994 .G35 PY - 2002/// CY - Upper Saddle River, NJ PB - Prentice Hall KW - Motion pictures N1 - 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 ER -