| Description |
xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The conjurer's art -- Story and script -- Relationship between script and film -- Theme -- Form and structure -- The elements of a script -- The visual images -- The sound -- Relationships within the script -- Image -- The cinematic quality of the image -- The elements of cinematography -- Film: the raw material of the cinema -- Composition -- Illumination -- Color -- The tools of cinematography -- Camera -- Lens -- Lighting and lighting equipment -- Sound -- The mechanics of film sound -- The elements of film sound -- Synchronous sound: dialogue -- Dubbing -- The mix -- The art of film sound -- Dialogue recording -- Voice tracks -- Creative use of sound effects -- The art of film music -- Silence -- Editing -- The mechanics of film editing -- The art of film editing -- Time -- Rhythm -- Visual and aural relationships -- Montage -- Effective editing -- The director -- The emerging role of the contemporary director -- The function of the director -- The director and the writer -- The director and the cameraman -- The director and the crew -- The director and the actor -- The director and the editor -- Elements of style -- Subject material -- Script -- Images and movement -- Acting performances -- Pace -- The editing -- Supportive movements -- The director as a creative artist -- Literature -- The visual art -- Editing and sound -- Acting for film -- The historical development of screen acting -- The elements of acting for film -- The separation of actor from audience -- The camera and its effect upon the actor -- Performance out of sequence -- Performance in small, separate units -- The reconstruction of performance through editing -- The architecture of a total performance -- The projection of internal conviction -- Physical performance -- Intellectual communication -- The actor as a creative artist -- The contemporary filmmaker -- The rise of the contemporary cinema -- Vittorio de Sica -- Luis Bunuel -- Federico Fellini -- Joseph Losey -- Michelangelo Antonioni -- Ingmar Bergman -- Akira Kurosawa -- Alain Resnais -- Stanley Kubrick -- Francois Truffaut -- Jean-Luc Godard -- Film criticism -- The function of criticism -- Qualifications of the film critic -- Criticism and reportage -- Style -- Content -- The contemporary film critics -- Penelope Gilliatt -- John Russell Taylor -- Dwight MacDonald -- Norman Mailer -- Wilfrid Sheed -- Stanley Kauffman -- Andrew Sarris -- Pauline Kael |
| Notes |
Includes bibliograhies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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| LC no. |
74002561 |
| ISBN |
0155220950 |
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