Classical Hollywood Cinema Film Style and Mode of Production To 1960

Name: Classical Hollywood Cinema Film Style and Mode of Production To 1960
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ISBN: 9780231060554

ISBN-10: 0231060556

ISBN-13: 9780231060554

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Authors: David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson

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Book details

List price: $60.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/19/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 506
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.09" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English

Janet Staiger teaches cultural, gender, sexuality, and media studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Her recent books are Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception and Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era (both available from NYU Press).




The classical Hollywood style, 1917-60



An excessively obvious cinema Story causality and motivation The Hollywood mode of production to 1930



Classical narration The formulation of the classical style, 1909-28



Time in the classical film Film style and technology to 1930 Space in the classical film The Hollywood mode of production, 1930-60



Shot and scene Film style and technology, 1930-60



The bounds of difference Historical implications of the classical Hollywood cinema



The Hollywood mode of production: its conditions of exercise Standardization and differentiation: The reinforcement and dispersion of Hollywood's practices The director system: management in the first years The director-unity system: management of multiple-unit companies after 1909 The central producer system: centralized management after 1914 The division and order of production: the subdivision of the work from the first years through the 1920s From primitive to classical The formulation of the classical narrative The continuity system Classical narrative space and the spectator's attention The stability of the classical approach after 1917 Technology, style and mode of production



Initial standardization of the basic technology



The Mazda tests of 1928 The introduction of sound



The labor-force, financing and the mode of production The producer-unit system: management by specialization after 1931 The package-unit system: unit management after 1955 Deep-focus cinematography Technicolor Widescreen processes and stereophonic sound Since 1960: the persistence of a mode of film practice Alternative modes of film practice