Film art : an introduction /
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson and now, Co-Author, Jeff Smith's Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by exa...
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New York :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Eleventh edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Film art and filmmaking. Film as art : creativity, technology, and business
- Film form. The significance of film form ; Narrative form
- Film style. The shot: mise-en-scene ; The shot: cinematography ; The relation of shot to shot: editing ; Sound in the cinema ; Summary: style and film form
- Types of films. Film genres ; Documentary, experimental, and animated films
- Critical analysis of films. Film criticism: sample analyses
- Film art and film history. Historical changes in film art: conventions and choices, tradition and trends.