Film technique and film acting
Subtitle: the cinema writings of V. I. Pudovkin
Publisher: Vision Press Limited
Published: 1954
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Motion Pictures
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Lewis Jacobs
pagenum: iii; title: Introduction to the German Edition
pagenum: xiii; label: I
title: The Film Scenario and Its Theory; title: Foreword
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: The Scenario
pagenum: 3
description: The meaning of the "shooting-script" - The construction of the scenario - The theme - The action-treatment of the theme - Conclusion.; label: Part II
title: The Plastic Material
pagenum: 26
description: The simplest specific methods of shooting - Method of treatment of the material: structural editing - Editing of the scene - Editing of the sequence - Editing of the Scenario - Editing as an instrument of impression: relational editing.; label: II
title: Film Director and Film Material; label: Part I
title: The Peculiarities of Film Material
pagenum: 51
description: The film and the theatre - The methods of the film - Film and reality - Filmic space and time - The material of films - Analysis - Editing: the logic of filmic analysis - The necessity to interfere with movement - Organisation of the material to be shot - Arranging setups - The organisation of chance material - Filmic form - The technique of directorial work.; label: Part II
title: The Director and the Scenario
pagenum: 93
description: The director and the scenarist - The environment of the film - The characters in the environment - The establishment of the rhythm of the film.; label: Part III
title: The Director and the Actor
pagenum: 105
description: Two kinds of production - The film actor and the film type - Planning the acting of the film type - The ensemble - Expressive movement - Expressive objects - The director as creator of the ensemble.; label: Part IV
title: The Actor in the Frame
pagenum: 118
description: The actor and the filmic image - The actor and light.; label: Part V
title: The Director and the Cameraman
pagenum: 120
description: The cameraman and the camera - The camera and its viewpoint - The shooting of movement - The camera compels the spectator to see as the director wishes - The shaping of the composition - The laboratory - Collectivism: the basis of film-work.; label: III
title: Types Instead of Actors
pagenum: 137; label: IV
title: Close-ups in Time
pagenum: 146; label: V
title: Asynchronism as a Principle of Sound Film
pagenum: 155; label: VI
title: Rhythmic Problems in My First Sound Film
pagenum: 166; label: VII
title: Notes and Appendices; label: A
title: Glossarial Notes
pagenum: 175; label: B
title: Special Notes
pagenum: 180; label: C
title: Iconography of Pudovkin's Works
pagenum: 192; label: D
title: Index of Names
pagenum: 196