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Film Studies Film and Culture Series John Belton, General Editor FILM STUDIES An Introduction Ed Sikov COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK for Adam Orman and the other great students in my life for John Belton and the other great teachers in my life CONTENTS PREFACE: WHAT THIS BOOK IS—AND WHAT IT’S NOT INTRODUCTION: REPRESENTATION AND REALITY ONE MISE-EN-SCENE: WITHIN THE IMAGE What Is Mise-en-Scene? The Shot Subject-Camera Distance—Why It Matters Camera Angle Space and Time on Film Composition STUDY GUIDE: ANALYZING THE SHOT WRITING ABOUT THE IMAGE TWO MISE-EN-SCENE: CAMERA MOVEMENT Mobile Framing Types of Camera Movement Editing within the Shot Space and Movement STUDY GUIDE: ANALYZING CAMERA MOVEMENT WRITING ABOUT CAMERA MOVEMENT THREE MISE-EN-SCENE: CINEMATOGRAPHY Motion Picture Photography Aspect Ratio: From 1:33 to Widescreen Aspect Ratio: Form and Meaning Lighting Three-Point Lighting Film Stocks: Super 8 to 70mm to Video Black, White, Gray, and Color A Word or Two about Lenses STUDY GUIDE: ANALYZING CINEMATOGRAPHY WRITING ABOUT CINEMATOGRAPHY FOUR EDITING: FROM SHOT TO SHOT Transitions Montage The Kuleshov Experiment Continuity Editing The 180° System Shot/Reverse-Shot Pattern STUDY GUIDE: ANALYZING SHOT-TO-SHOT EDITING WRITING ABOUT EDITING FIVE SOUND A Very Short History of Film Sound Recording, Rerecording, Editing, and Mixing Analytical Categories of Film Sound Sound and Space STUDY GUIDE: HEARING SOUND, ANALYZING SOUND WRITING ABOUT SOUND AND SOUNDTRACKS SIX NARRATIVE: FROM SCENE TO SCENE Narrative Structure Story and Plot Scenes and Sequences Transitions from Scene to Scene Character, Desire, and Conflict Analyzing Conflict STUDY GUIDE: ANALYZING SCENE-TO-SCENE EDITING WRITING ABOUT NARRAT IVE STRUCTURE SEVEN FROM SCREENPLAY TO FILM Deeper into Narrative Structure Screenwriting: The Three-Act Structure Segmentation: Form Segmentation: Meaning A Segmentation of Inside Man STUDY GUIDE: STORY ANALYSIS AND SEGMENTATION WRITING ABOUT WRITING EIGHT FILMMAKERS Film—A Director’s Art? Authorship The Auteur Theory The Producer’s Role Teamwork STUDY GUIDE: THE PROBLEM OF ATTRIBUTION WRITING ABOUT DIRECTORS NINE PERFORMANCE Performance as an Element of Mise-en-Scene Acting Styles Stars and Character Actors Type and Stereotype Women as Types Acting in—and on—Film Publicity: Extra-Filmic Meaning STUDY GUIDE: ANALYZING ACTING WRITING ABOUT ACTING TEN GENRE What Is a Genre? Conventions, Repetitions, and Variations A Brief Taxonomy of Two Film Genres—the Western and the Horror Film Genre: The Semantic/Syntactic Approach Film Noir: A Case Study Film Noir: A Brief History Film Noir’s Conventions STUDY GUIDE: GENRE ANALYSIS FOR THE INTRODUCTORY STUDENT WRITING ABOUT GENRES ELEVEN SPECIAL EFFECTS Beyond the Ordinary Optical and Mechanical Special Effects Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) STUDY GUIDE: EFFECTS AND MEANING WRITING ABOUT SPECIAL EFFECTS TWELVE PUTTING IT TOGETHER: A MODEL 8-TO 10-PAGE PAPER How This Chapter Works “Introducing Tyler,” by Robert Paulson GLOSSARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
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