Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging PDF
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University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2005 by the Regents of the University of California Chapter 2 is adapted from David Bordwell, "La Nouvelle Mission de Feuillade; or, What Was Mise-en-Scene?" from (1996): 10-29. © Velvet Light Trap, no. 37 University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bordwell, David. Figures traced in light: on cinematic staging / David Bordwell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-520-24197-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) r. Motion pictures-Production and direction. (Motion pictures) . 2. Auteur theory I. Title. PN1995.9.P7B635 2005 79r.4302'33-dc22 2004001354 Manufactured in the United States of America 14 13 12 10 9 8 II 7 6 IO 09 4 08 3 2 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39-48-1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper). .For Sally The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution to this book provided by the G eneral Endowment Fund of the U niversity of California Press Associates. We have long come to realize that art is not produced in an empty space, that no artist is independent of predecessors and models, that he no less than the scientist and philosopher is part of a specific tradition and works in a structured area of problems. The degree of mastery within this framework, and at least in certain periods, the freedom to modify these stringencies are presumably part of the complex scale by which achievement is being measured. ERN S T KR I S I create neither for the audience nor for myself. I create for solutions. GYORGY L I GET I BLANK PAGE Contents Plates (follow page 180) Acknowledgments Staging and Style • • xi i • 43 • 2 Feuillade, or Storytelling 3 Mizoguchi, or Modulation 4 Angelopoulos, or Melancholy 5 6 Hou, or Constraints Staging and Stylistics Notes Index • • 271 301 • • 186 238 83 • 140
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