Looking at Movies An Introduction to Film
by Barsam, RichardEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-11-09
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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The text, DVDs, website, and writing guide package costs less than competing texts alone, making Looking at Movies an outstanding value for your students.Includes two DVDs, access to the student website, and a supplementary Writing About Movies guide. Also available as an eBook.
Table of Contents
| What Is a Movie? | |
| Learning Objectives | |
| Looking at Movies | |
| Form and Content | |
| Form and Expectations | |
| Patterns | |
| Principles of Film Form | |
| Movies Manipulate Space and Time in Unique Ways | |
| Movies Depend on Light | |
| Photography | |
| Series Photography | |
| Motion Picture Photography | |
| Movies Provide an Illusion of Movement | |
| Realism and Antirealism | |
| Verisimilitude | |
| Cinematic Language | |
| Types of Movies | |
| Narrative Films | |
| Genre | |
| Nonfiction Films | |
| Animated Films | |
| Experimental Films | |
| Summary: What Is a Movie? | |
| Analyzing Movies | |
| Screening Checklist: What Is a Movie? | |
| Questions for Review | |
| Movies Described or Illustrated in This Chapter | |
| Narrative | |
| Learning Objectives | |
| What Is Narrative? | |
| The Screenwriter | |
| Evolution of a Typical Screenplay | |
| Elements of Narrative | |
| Story and Plot | |
| Order | |
| Events: Hubs and Satellites | |
| Duration | |
| Suspense Versus Surprise | |
| Repetition | |
| Characters | |
| Setting | |
| Scope | |
| Narration and Narrators | |
| Looking at Narrative: John Ford 's Stagecoach | |
| Story | |
| Plot | |
| Order | |
| Diegetic and Nondiegetic Elements | |
| Hubs and Satellites | |
| Duration | |
| Suspense | |
| Repetition | |
| Characters | |
| Setting | |
| Scope | |
| Narration | |
| Analyzing Narrative | |
| Screening Checklist: Narrative | |
| Questions for Review | |
| Movies Described or Illustrated in This Chapter | |
| Mise-en-Scène | |
| Learning Objectives | |
| What Is Mise-en-Scène? | |
| Design | |
| The Production Designer | |
| Elements of Design | |
| Setting, Décor, and Properties | |
| Lighting | |
| Costume, Makeup, and Hairstyle | |
| International Styles of Design | |
| Composition | |
| Framing: What We See on the Screen | |
| Onscreen and Offscreen Space | |
| Open and Closed Framing | |
| Kinesis: What Moves on the Screen | |
| Movement of Figures Within the Frame | |
| Looking at Mise-en-Scène | |
| Tim Burton 's Sleepy Hollow | |
| Sam Mendes 's American Beauty | |
| Michael Almereyda 's Hamlet | |
| Analyzing Mise-en-Scène | |
| Screening Checklist: Mise-en-Scène | |
| Questions for Review | |
| Movies Described or Illustrated in This Chapter | |
| Cinematography | |
| Learning Objectives | |
| What Is Cinematography? | |
| The Director of Photography | |
| Cinematographic Properties of the Shot | |
| Film Stock | |
| Black and White | |
| Color | |
| Lighting | |
| Source | |
| Quality | |
| Direction | |
| Style | |
| Lenses | |
| Framing of the Shot | |
| Proximity to the Camera | |
| Depth | |
| Camera Angle and Height | |
| Eye Level | |
| High Angle | |
| Low Angle | |
| Dutch Angle | |
| Aerial View | |
| Scale | |
| Camera Movement | |
| Pan Shot | |
| Tilt Shot | |
| Dolly Shot | |
| Zoom | |
| Crane Shot | |
| Handheld Camera | |
| Steadicam | |
| Framing and Point of View | |
| Speed and Length of the Shot | |
| Special Effects | |
| In-Camera, Mechanical, and Laboratory Effects | |
| Computer-Generated Imagery | |
| Analyzing Cinematography | |
| Screening Checklist: Cinematography | |
| Questions for Review | |
| Movie | |
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