Understanding movies by Giannetti, Louis D, Leach, Jim instant download

Understanding movies by Giannetti, Louis D, Leach, Jim instant download

xix, 436 p. : 24 cm, Student access card inserted for online materials, Includes bibliographical references and index, pt. 1. Medium: Realism and formalism -- The director -- The screenwriter -- The spectator -- The film experience -- Figurative comparisons -- Point of view -- Tone, pt. 2. Story: Narrative -- The classical paradigm -- Realistic narratives -- Formalistic narratives--Adaptation -- Genre, pt. 3. Photography: The cinematographer -- The shots -- The angles -- Light and dark ; Colour -- Lenses, filters, and stocks -- Digital imaging, pt. 4. Mise en scène: The frame -- Composition and design -- Settings -- Territorial space -- Proxemic patterns -- Open and closed forms, pt. 5. Movement: Kinetics -- The moving camera -- Mechanical distortions of movement, pt. 6. Editing: Continuity -- D.W. Griff ith and classical cutting -- Soviet montage and the formalist tradition -- André Bazin and the tradition of realism, pt. 7. Sound: Historical background -- Sound effects -- Music -- Musicals and melodrama -- Speech, pt. 8. Acting: Screen acting -- The star system -- Styles of acting -- Casting -- Costumes and makeup, pt. 9. Nonfiction films: The documentary mode -- John Grierson and the classical documentary -- Cinéma verité and direct cinema -- Avant-garde cinema, pt. 10. Canadian cinema: National cinema -- Canada's national cinema(s) -- The formative years -- The direct cinema tradition -- Canadian genre films -- Canadian cinema since Telefilm -- Toward a post-national cinema?, pt. 11. Theory: Theories of realism -- Formalist film theories -- The auteur theory -- Structuralism and semiology -- Ideology and culture -- Post-theory, pt. 12. Writing about movies: Kinds of writing about movies -- Preparing to write -- Writing the essay -- Constructing an argument -- Presenting the evidence -- Finishing the essay