Film Art: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson

Publisher: McGraw Hill
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 531
Edition: 8th
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthethic all its own. This edition has been re-designed in colour greatly enhancing the text's visual appeal and overall accessibility to today's students. The text is supported by a CD-ROM with video clips, and text-specific website.

✦ Table of Contents

Film as art : Creativity, technology and business --
The significance of film form --
Narrative as a formal system --
The Shot: Mise-en-scene --
The Shot: Cinematography --
The relation of shot to shot editing --
Sound in the cinema --
Summary: Style as a formal system --
Film genres --
Documentary, experimental and animated films --
Film criticism: Sample analyses --
Film art and film history.

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