Understanding movies
By: Louis Giannetti, Jim Leach
Contributors: Leach, Jim
Edition: 5th Canadian ed.
Publisher: Pearson Canada
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780137010363
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Motion pictures; Textbooks; Cinéma; Manuels
Notes: Student access card inserted for online materials.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Medium: Realism and formalism; title: The director; title: The screenwriter; title: The spectator; title: The film experience; title: Figurative comparisons; title: Point of view; title: Tone.; title: pt. 2. Story: Narrative; title: The classical paradigm; title: Realistic narratives; title: Formalistic narratives; title: Adaptation; title: Genre.; title: pt. 3. Photography: The cinematographer; title: The shots; title: The angles; title: Light and dark ; Colour; title: Lenses, filters, and stocks; title: Digital imaging.; title: pt. 4. Mise en scène: The frame; title: Composition and design; title: Settings; title: Territorial space; title: Proxemic patterns; title: Open and closed forms.; title: pt. 5. Movement: Kinetics; title: The moving camera; title: Mechanical distortions of movement.; title: pt. 6. Editing: Continuity; title: D.W. Griff ith and classical cutting; title: Soviet montage and the formalist tradition; title: André Bazin and the tradition of realism.; title: pt. 7. Sound: Historical background; title: Sound effects; title: Music; title: Musicals and melodrama; title: Speech.; title: pt. 8. Acting: Screen acting; title: The star system; title: Styles of acting; title: Casting; title: Costumes and makeup.; title: pt. 9. Nonfiction films: The documentary mode; title: John Grierson and the classical documentary; title: Cinéma verité and direct cinema; title: Avant-garde cinema.; title: pt. 10. Canadian cinema: National cinema; title: Canada's national cinema(s); title: The formative years; title: The direct cinema tradition; title: Canadian genre films; title: Canadian cinema since Telefilm; title: Toward a post-national cinema?; title: pt. 11. Theory: Theories of realism; title: Formalist film theories; title: The auteur theory; title: Structuralism and semiology; title: Ideology and culture; title: Post-theory.; title: pt. 12. Writing about movies: Kinds of writing about movies; title: Preparing to write; title: Writing the essay; title: Constructing an argument; title: Presenting the evidence; title: Finishing the essay.