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

By: Bordwell, DavidContributor(s): Thompson, Kristin, 1950-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill, c2015Edition: 10th int. student edDescription: xviii, 526 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN: 9789814646338 (pbk.); 9814646334 (pbk.)Subject(s): Motion pictures -- AestheticsDDC classification: 791.4301 LOC classification: PN1995 | .B67 2015
Contents:
Film Art and Filmmaking. Film as art: creativity, technology, and business. -- Film Form. The significance of film form ; Narrative form. -- Film Style. The shot: mise-en-scene ; The shot: cinematography ; The relation of shot to shot: editing ; Sound in the cinema ; Style as a formal system. -- Types of Film. Film genres ; Documentary, experimental, and animated films. -- Critical Analysis of Films. Film criticism: sample analyses ; Writing a critical analysis of a film. -- Film History. Historical changes in film art conventions and choices, tradition and trends.
Summary: Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. In this new edition, the authors provide an introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, with images throughout the text collected from actual film frames, not from production stills or advertising photos.
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PN1995 .B47 2017 c.1 Hollywood aesthetic : PN1995 .B66 2016 c.1 What is film? / PN1995 .B67 1997 c.2 Film art : PN1995 .B67 2015 c.1 Film art : PN1995 .C43 2003 c.2 Cinemas of the world : PN1995 .C43 2003 c.3 Cinemas of the world : PN1995 .C57 2018 c.1 Christian Metz and the codes of cinema :

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Film Art and Filmmaking. Film as art: creativity, technology, and business. -- Film Form. The significance of film form ; Narrative form. -- Film Style. The shot: mise-en-scene ; The shot: cinematography ; The relation of shot to shot: editing ; Sound in the cinema ; Style as a formal system. -- Types of Film. Film genres ; Documentary, experimental, and animated films. -- Critical Analysis of Films. Film criticism: sample analyses ; Writing a critical analysis of a film. -- Film History. Historical changes in film art conventions and choices, tradition and trends.

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. In this new edition, the authors provide an introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, with images throughout the text collected from actual film frames, not from production stills or advertising photos.

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