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1 online resource (513 pages) |
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POETICS OF CINEMA; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Questions of Theory; 1. Poetics of Cinema; The Tradition; Domains and Tendencies; One Poetics of Film; Poetics: A Program; An Excursion on Reflections and Zeitgeists; From Shriek to Shot; What Snakes, Eagles, and Rhesus Macaques Can Teach Us; 2. Convention, Construction, and Cinematic Vision; Shot/Reverse Shot: A Convention?; Primary Theory and a Continuum of Conventions; A Package Deal; Contingent Universals and Us; Afterword; II Studies in Narrative; 3. Three Dimensions of Film Narrative; Some First Moves |
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Protagonists and Their ProblemsNarration; Plot Structure; The Narrative World; Afterword: Narrators, Implied Authors, and Other Superfluities; 4. Cognition and Comprehension Viewing and Forgetting in Mildred Pierce; Narrative Norms; Two Methods of Murder; The Partial Replay; Secrets and Lies, and Narration; 5. The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice; Realism, Authorship, Ambiguity; The Art Cinema in History; Afterword; 6. Film Futures; Rules of the Game; Some Sources; 7. Mutual Friends and Chronologies of Chance; Protagonists and Projects; This Particular Web; Major Players |
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Familiars, Strangers, and Random WalksOnly Connect, or at Least Collide; Narration Makes Networks; Compare and Contrast; Criss-Crossers Cross Over; Four Small Worlds; Nashville (1975); Magnolia (1999); Favoris de la lune (1984); Les Passagers (1999); Sustaining the Network; Network Narrative: A Working Filmography; III Studies in Style; 8. Cinecerity; Style and Film History; Style and the Critic; Envoi; 9. Taking Things to Extremes Hallucinations Courtesy of Robert Reinert; Revelations at the Cinema Verdi; Close-Up Depth; Problems and Solutions |
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10. CinemaScope The Modern Miracle You See Without GlassesThe Big Picture; Hollywood Cadillac; A Lack of Scope; Taming a New Technology; Some Virtues of Clotheslines; Reinventing the Tableau; The End of Screen Ratios?; 11. Who Blinked First?; The Tightrope; The Strength of the Stare; Streamlined Behavior; 12. Visual Style in Japanese Cinema, 1925-1945; A Classical Cinema?; Voices in the Dark; Exercising the Eye; Constructing and Reconstructing Japaneseness; Stylistic Trends; Blending and Refining; The Pacific War: Toning Down Technique; Afterword |
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13. A Cinema of Flourishes Decorative Style in 1920s and 1930s Japanese FilmSome Functions of Style; Games With Vision; A Tradition of Ornamentation; 14. Aesthetics in Action Kung-Fu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expression; Hollywood Action: The 1980s and After; The Mechanics of Movement; Toward an Ecstatic Cinema; 15. Richness Through Imperfection King Hu and the Glimpse; Inherited Norms; A Problem and Some Solutions; Cuts and Slashes; Glimpses of Marvels; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the ""historical poetics of cinema, "" David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning with this central thesis, Bordwell works out a full understanding of how films channel and recast cultural influences for their cinematic purposes. With more than five hu |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-479) and index |
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Print version record |
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Motion pictures.
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Motion Pictures
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Motion pictures
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Filmtheorie
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Filmästhetik
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Erzähltheorie
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Poetik
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Film
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Filmkunst.
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Esthetica.
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Filmtheorie.
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Filmästhetik.
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Filmtheorie.
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Film.
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures.
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Films.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135867812 |
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113586781X |
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