Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 PHOTOGRAPHY
Realism and Formalism
The Shots
The Angles
Light and Dark
Color
Lenses, Filters, and Stocks
The Digital Revolution
The Cinematographer
Further Reading
Chapter 2 MISE EN SC?NE
Composition and Design
Territorial Space
Proxemic Patterns
Open and Closed Forms
Further Reading
Chapter 3 MOVEMENT
The Moving Camera
Mechanical Distortions of Movement
Further Reading
Chapter 4 EDITING
Continuity
D. W. Griffith and Classical Cutting
Soviet Montage and the Formalist Tradition
André Bazin and the Tradition of Realism
Further Reading
Chapter 5 SOUND
Historical Background
Sound Effects
Music
Musicals
Spoken Language
Further Reading
Chapter 6 ACTING
Stage and Screen Acting
The American Star System
Styles of Acting
Casting
Further Reading
Chapter 7 DRAMATIZATION
Time, Space, and Language
The Director
Settings and Décor
Costumes and Makeup
Further Reading
Chapter 8 STORY
Narratology
The Spectator
The Classical Paradigm
Realistic Narratives
Formalistic Narratives
Nonfictional Narratives
Genre and Myth
Further Reading
Chapter 9 WRITING
The Screenwriter
The Screenplay
North by Northwest:he Screenplay
Figurative Comparisons
Point of View
Literary Adaptations
Further Reading
Chapter 10 IDEOLOGY
The Left-Center-Right Model
Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity
Feminism
Queer Cinema
Tone
Further Reading
Chapter 11 CRITIQUE
Theories of Realism
Formalist Film Theories
The Auteur Theory
Eclectic and Synthesizing Approaches
Structuralism and Semiology
Historiography
Further Reading
Chapter 12 SYNTHESIS: Citizen Kane
Photography
Mise en Scène
Movement
Editing
Sound
Acting
Dramatization
Story
Writing
Ideology
Critique
Further Reading
Glossary
Text Credits
Index