Essential Cinema: An Introduction to Film Analysis

355 Pages·2013·55.38 MB·English

by  Jon Lewis

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EssEntial
Cinema
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EssEntial
Cinema
an introduction to Film analysis
Jon Lewis
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Brief CONTeNTS
1 anaLyzing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
2 narrative and genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
3 mise-en-sCène . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
4 Camera work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
5 editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
6 sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
7 the CommerCiaL and industriaL Contexts . . . .182
8 doCumentary, animated,
and experimentaL FiLms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206
9 FiLm history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .244
10 writing about FiLm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282
gLossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310
index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317
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