Research Catalog

Title

Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson.

Author

Bordwell, David.

Publication

Boston : McGraw Hill, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Thompson, Kristin, 1950-

Description

xxiii, 505 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm +

Subjects

• Motion pictures > Aesthetics
• Cinéma > Esthétique

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-474) and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: IBM-PC or compatible; Window 98 or higher.

Contents

Part 1. Film Art and Filmmaking -- Chapter 1. Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business -- Film Artistry in Shadow of a Doubt -- Box: A Closer Look: Picking out Patterns -- Mechanics of the Movies -- Illusion Machined -- Making the Movie: Film Production -- The Scriptwriting and Funding Phase -- The Preparation Phase -- Shooting Phase -- The Assembly Phase -- Box: A Closer Look: Some Terms and Roles in Film Production -- Modes of Production -- Large-Scale Production -- Exploitation and Independent Production -- Small-Scale Production -- Artistic Implications of Different Modes of Production -- Box: A Closer Look: Convergences: Film and Video -- Bringing the Film to the Audience: Distribution and Exhibition -- Distribution: The Center of Power -- Exhibition: Theatrical and Nontheatrical -- Box: Movies on Screen: A 2004 Profile of Theatrical Exhibition -- Artistic Implications of Distribution and Exhibition -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVDs -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Part 2. Film Form -- Chapter 2. The Significance of Film Form -- The Concept of Form in Film -- Form as System -- "Form" Versus "Content" -- Formal Expectations -- Conventions and Experience -- Form and Feeling -- Form and Meaning -- Evaluation -- Principles of Film Form -- Function -- Similarity and Repetition -- Difference and Variation -- Development -- Unity and Disunity -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Chapter 3. Narrative as a Formal System -- Principles of Narrative Construction -- Plot and Story -- Cause and Effect -- Time -- Space -- Box: A Closer Look: Playing Games with Story Time -- Openings, Closings, and Patterns of Development -- Narration: The Flow of Story Information -- Range of Story Information -- Depth of Story Information -- The Narrator -- Summing Up Narration -- The Classical Hollywood Cinema -- Narrative Form in Citizen Kane -- Overall Narrative Expectations in Citizen Kane -- Plot and Story m Citizen Kane -- Citizen Kane's Causality -- Time in Citizen Kane -- Motivation Citizen Kane -- Citizen Kane's Parallelism -- Patterns of Plot Development in Citizen Kane -- Narration in Citizen Kane -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Part 3. Film Style -- Chapter 4. The Shot: Mise-en-Scene -- What Is Mise-en-Scene? -- Aspects of Mise-en-Scene -- Costume and Makeup -- Lighting -- Staging: Movement and Performance -- Box: A Closer Look: The Film Actor's Toolkit -- Putting It All Together: Mise-en-Scene in Space and Time -- Space -- Time -- Narrative Functions of Mise-en-Scene in Our Hospitality -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Chapter 5. The Shot: Cinematography -- The Photographic Image -- The Range of Tonalities -- Speed of Motion -- Box-A Closer Look: From Monsters to the Mundane: Computer-Generated imagery in The Lord of the Rings -- Framing -- Frame Dimensions and Shape -- Box: A Closer Look: Common Aspect Ratios of 35mm Film -- Onscreen and Offscreen Space -- Angle, Level, Height, and Distance of Framing -- The Mobile Frame -- Duration of the Image: The Long Take -- Functions of the Long Take -- The Long Take and the Mobile Frame -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Chapter 6. The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing -- What Is Editing? -- Dimensions of Film Editing -- Graphic Relations Between Shot A and Shot B -- Rhythmic Relations Between Shot A and Shot B -- Spatial Relations Between Shot A and Shot B -- Temporal Relations Between Shot A and Shot B -- Continuity Editing -- Spatial Continuity: The 180[Degrees] System -- Continuity Editing in The Maltese Falcon -- Continuity Editing: Some Fine Points -- More Refinements: Crossing the Axis of Action -- Crosscutting -- Temporal Editing: Order, Frequency, and Duration -- Box: A Closer Look: Intensified Continuity: L.A. Confidential and Contemporary Editing -- Alternatives to Continuity Editing -- Graphic and Rhythmic Possibilities -- Spatial and Temporal Discontinuity -- Functions of Discontinuity Editing: October -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Chapter 7. Sound in the Cinema -- The Powers of Sound -- Fundamentals of Film Sound -- Perceptual Properties -- Selection, Alteration, and Combination -- Dimensions of Film Sound -- Rhythm -- Fidelity -- Space -- Box: A Closer Look: Offscreen Sound and Optical Point of View: The Money Exchange in Jackie Brown -- Time -- Functions of Film Sound: A Man Escaped -- Fontaine's Commentary -- Sound Effects and Narration -- Sound Motifs -- Music -- A Sample Sequence -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Chapter 8. Summary: Style as a Formal System -- The Concept of Style -- Style and the Filmmaker -- Style and the Viewer -- Analyzing Film Style -- Step 1. Determine the Organization Structure -- Step 2. Identify the Salient Techniques Used -- Step 3. Trace Out Patterns of Techniques -- Step 4. Propose Functions for the Salient Techniques and the Patterns They Form -- Style in Citizen Kane -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Part 4. Types of Films -- Chapter 9. Film Genres -- Understanding Genre -- Defining a Genre -- Analyzing a Genre -- Genre History -- Box: A Closer Look: A Contemporary Genre: The Crime Thriller -- The Social Functions of Genres -- Three Genres -- The Western -- The Horror Film -- The Musical -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Chapter 10. Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films -- Documentary -- What Is a Documentary? -- Types Documentary -- The Boundaries Between Documentary and Fiction -- Types of Form in Documentary Films -- Categorical Form -- Rhetorical Form -- Experimental Film -- Types of Form in Experimental Films -- Abstract Form -- Associational Form -- The Animated Film -- An Example of Narrative Animation: Duck Amuck -- An Example of Experimental Animation: Fuji -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVD Supplements -- Part 5. Critical Analysis of Films -- Chapter 11. Film Criticism: Critical Analyses -- The Classical Narrative Cinema -- His Girl Friday -- North by Northwest -- Do The Right Thing -- Narrative Alternatives to Classical Filmmaking -- Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) -- Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) -- Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam) -- Documentary Form and Style -- Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom) -- The Thin Blue Line -- Form, Style, and Ideology -- Meet Me in St. Louis -- Raging Bull -- Appendix. Writing a Critical Analysis of a Film -- Preparing to Write -- Step 1. Develop a Thesis That Your Essay Will Explain and Support -- Step 2. Draw Up a Segmentation of the Entire Film -- Step 3. Note Outstanding Instances of Film Technique -- Organizing and Writing -- Sample Essay: Fantasy and Reality in The King of Comedy -- Where to Go from Here -- Sample-Analysis Films on DVD -- Part 6. Film History -- Chapter 12. Film Art and Film History -- Early Cinema (1893-1903) -- The Development of the Classical Hollywood Cinema (1908-1927) -- German Expressionism (1919-1926) -- French Impressionism and Surrealism (1918-1930) -- Impressionism -- Surrealism -- Soviet Montage (1924-1930) -- The Classical Hollywood Cinema After the Coming of Sound -- Italian Neorealism (1942-1951) -- The French New Wave (1959-1964) -- The New Hollywood and Independent Filmmaking -- Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema -- Where to Go from Here -- Recommended DVDs -- Recommended DVD Supplements.

ISBN

• 9780073535067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0073535060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780071286442 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0071286446 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780071101592
• 0073310271
• 9780073310275

LCCN

2006046880

OCLC

• 1126409533
• on1126409533
• SCSB-5363939

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries