Movies and Meaning An Introduction to Film

Name: Movies and Meaning An Introduction to Film
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ISBN: 9780205480777

ISBN-10: 0205480772

ISBN-13: 9780205480777

Edition: 4th 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen Prince

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This comprehensive introduction to the film industry focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. This is the only introductory film text to examine the elements of film style "and" the viewer's contribution to the cinema experience. Includes case studies of prominent films, Sidebar material extends major topics of discussion and to profiles major directors, Coverage of new technologies and their impact on filmmaking. The contemporary film industry, the major studios, and the interplay between business and aesthetics well as blockbusters, new technologies, the film industry, and…

Book details

List price: $100.40
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface



Film Structure


Elements of Film Structure


Structure and the Camera


Structural Design and Creative Choice


The Camera and Human Perception: Cinema's Dual Capability



Cinematography


Collaboration and Previsualization


The Essentials of Cinematography


Cinematography and the Digital Domain


Visual Style and Design Quotations



Production Design


What the Production Designer Does


Basic Tools of Production Design


The Design Concept


Production Design and Special Effects



Acting


Acting in Film and Theater


Categories of Film Performers


Method and Technical Approaches to Performing


The Performer as an Element of Visual Design


Performance, Emotion, and the Viewerrsquo;s Response



Editing: Making the Cut


What Is Editing?


Linear and Nonlinear Systems


Functions of Editing


The Principles of Continuity Editing


Alternatives to Continuity Editing



Principles of Sound Design


Sound in Contemporary Film


Evolution of Film Sound


Types of Sound


Sound Design



The Nature of Narrative in Film


Story and Script


The Turn to Narrative in Early Film History


Elements of Narrative


The Classical Hollywood Narrative


The Viewer's Contribution to Narrative


Film Genres


The Western


The Gangster Film


The Musical


The Horror Film


Science Fiction


The War Film


Film Noir



Modes of Screen Reality


Realism


Expressionism


Fantasy and the Fantastic


Cinematic Self-Reflexivity



Hollywood International


The Global Dominance of Hollywood


International Influence of Hollywood Style



Cinema in Multiple Contexts


Animation


Documentary


Independent Film


International Film


Women in Film


African American Film



Film Criticism and Interpretation