A readable, accessible introduction to film
Understanding Movies provides valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences through a unique network of language systems and techniques. In a readable, accessible, and sometimes humorous manner, Understanding Movies engages students in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films.
Organized around elements of film, the thirteenth edition of this market leading text provides students with a new way of looking at films that are familiar to them through contemporary coverage and a visually engaging presentation.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
Understand film as an industry
Discuss the impact of technology on the film industry
Author(s): Louis D. Giannetti
Edition: 13th
Publisher: Pearson
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 550
City: Boston
Tags: Películas cinematográficas -- Obras ilustradas;Películas cinematográficas -- Crítica e interpretación -- Obras ilustradas
Chapter 1: Photography
- Realism and Formalism
- The Shots
- The Angles
- Light and Dark
- Color
- Lenses, Filters, and Stocks The Digital Revolution
- The Cinematographer
- Further Reading
Chapter 2: Mise en Scene
- The Frame
- Composition and Design
- Territorial Space Proxemic Patterns
- Open and Closed Forms
- Further Reading
Chapter 3: Movement
- Kinetics
- The Moving Camera
- Mechanical Distortions of Movement
- Further Reading
Chapter 4: Editing
- Continuity
- D. W. Griffith and Classical Cutting
- Soviet Montage and the Formalist Tradition
- Andre Bazin and the Tradition of Realism
- Further Reading
Chapter 5: Sound
- Historical Background
- Sound Effects
- Music
- Musicals
- Spoken Language
- Further Reading
Chapter 6: Acting
- Stage and Screen Acting
- The American Star System
- Styles of Acting
- Casting
- Further Reading
Chapter 7: Dramatization
- Time, Space, and Language
- The Director
- Settings and Decor
- Costumes and Makeup
- Further Reading
Chapter 8: Story
- Narratology
- The Spectator
- The Classical Paradigm
- Realistic Narratives
- Formalistic Narratives
- Nonfictional Narratives
- Genre and Myth
- Further Reading
Chapter 9: Writing
- The Screenwriter
- The Screenplay
- North by Northwest: the Screenplay
- Figurative Comparisons
- Point of View
- Literary Adaptations
- Further Reading
Chapter 10: Ideology
- The Left-Center-Right Model
- Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity
- Feminism
- Queer Cinema
- Tone
- Further Reading
Chapter 11: Critique
- Theories of Realism
- Formalist Film Theories
- The Auteur Theory
- Eclectic and Synthesizing Approaches
- Structuralism and Semiology
- Historiography
- Further Reading
Chapter 12: Synthesis
- Photography
- Mise En Scene
- Movement
- Editing
- Sound
- Acting
- Dramatization
- Story
- Writing
- Ideology
- Critique
- Further Reading
