Figures traced in light
Subtitle: on cinematic staging
By: David Bordwell.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Production and direction.; Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
Description: A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors' performances, but also through the director's control of movement and shot design. This is a detailed consideration of how cinematic staging carries the story, expresses emotion, and beguiles the audience through pictorial composition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Staging and style; title: Feuillade, or Storytelling; title: Mizoguchi, or Modulation; title: Angelopoulos, or Melancholy; title: Hou, or Constraints; title: Staging and stylistics.