The film experience : an introduction / Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corrigan, Timothy, 1951- author.

White, Patricia, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxii, 518 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, [2015]

Contents:

pt. 1. Cultural contexts : watching, studying, and making movies

Introduction

Studying film : culture and experience

Why film studies matter

Film spectators and film cultures

Identification, cognition, and film variety

The 400 blows : an auteur's film experience (1959)

The film experience

1. Encountering film : from preproduction to exhibition

Production : how films are made

Distribution : what we can see

Distributing Killer of sheep (1977)

Marketing and promotion : what we want to see

The changing art and business of the film trailer

Man of steel (2013)

Word of mouth and fan engagement

Movie exhibition : the where, when, and how of movie experiences

Promoting The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Exhibiting Citizen Kane (1941).

pt. 2. Formal compositions : film scenes, shots, cuts, and sounds

2. Mise-en-scène : exploring a material world

Short history of mise-en-scène Theatrical mise-en-scène and the prehistory of cinema

1900-1912 : early cinema's theatrical influences

1915-19228 : silent cinema and the star system

1920s-1960s : studio-era production

1920-1970 : new cinematic realism

1975-present : mise-en-scène and the blockbuster

Settings and sets

Life of Pi (2012)

Scenic realism and atmosphere

Props, actors, costumes, and lights

Mise-en-scène in Do the right thing (1989)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Defining our place in a film's material world

Naturalistic mise-en-scène in Bicycle thieves (1948)

3. Cinematography : framing what we see

Short history of the cinematic image

1820s-1880s : the invention of photography and the prehistory of cinema

1890s-1920s : the emergence and refinement of cinematography

1930s-1940s : developments in color, wide-angle, and small-gauge cinematography

1950s-1960s : widescreen, 3-D, and new color processes

1970s-1980s : cinematography and exhibition in the age of the blockbuster

1990s and beyond : the digital future

The elements of cinematography

Points of view

Four attributes of the shot

Touch of evil (1958)

Color and contrast in film

Rear window (1954)

The Battle of Algiers (1967)

Animation and visual effects

Making sense of the film image

From angles to animation in Vertigo (1958)

Meaning through images in M (1931)

4. Editing : relating images

Short history of film editing

1895-1918 : early cinema and the emergence of editing

1919-1929 : Soviet montage

1930-1959 : continuity editing in the Hollywood Studio Era

1960-1989 : modern editing styles

1990s-present : editing in the digital age

The elements of editing

The cut and other transitions

Chinatown (1974)

The General (1927)

Editing and rhythm in Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Patterns of editing in Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

Disjunctive editing

Montage in Battleship Potemkin (1925)

5. Film sound : listening to the cinema

Short history of film sound

Theatrical and technological prehistories of film sound

1895-1920s : the sounds of silent cinema

1927-1930 : transition to synchronized sound

1930s-1940s : challenges and innovations in cinema sound

1950s-present : from stereophonic to digital sound

The elements of film sound

Sound and image

Sound production

Sound and image in Singin' in the rain (1952)

Pop music soundtracks in contemporary cinema

Sound effects in film

Winter's bone (2010)

The thin red line (1998)

Authenticity and experience

Sound continuity and sound montage

The role of sound and sound technology in The conversation (1974).

pt. 3. Organizational structures : from stories to genres

6. Narrative films : telling stories

Short history of narrative film

1900-1920s : adaptation, scriptwriters, and screenplays

1927-1950 : sound technology, dialogue, and classical Hollywood narrative

1950-1980 : art cinema

1980s-present : from narrative reflexivity to games

The elements of narrative film

Stories and plots

Characters

Diegetic and nondiegetic elements

Narrative patterns of time

Shutter Island (2010)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Plot and narration in Apocalypse now (1979)

Making sense of film narrative

Shaping memory, making history

Classical and alternative traditions in Mildred Pierce (1945) and Daughters of the dust (1991)

7. Documentary films : representing the real

A prehistory of documentaries

1895-1905 : early actualities, scenics, and topicals

1920s : Robert Flaherty and the Soviet documentaries

1930-1945 : the politics and propaganda of documentary

1950s-1970s : new technologies and the arrival of television

1980s-present : digital cinema, cable, and reality tv

Elements of documentary films

Nonfiction and non-narrative in Man of Aran (1934)

The Cove (2009)

Stories we tell (2012)

The contemporary documentary : Exit through the gift shop (2010)

8. Experimental film and new media : challenging form

Short history of experimental film and media practices

1910s-1920s : European avant-garde movements

1930s-1940s : sound and vision

1950s-1960s : the postwar avant-garde in America

Avant-garde visions in Meshes of the afternoon (1943)

1968-1980 : politics and experimental cinema

1980s-present : new technologies and new media

Variations of experimental media

Formalisms : narrative experimentation nd abstraction

Experimental organizations : associative, structural, and participatory

Formal play in Ballet mécanique (1924)

Gently down the stream (1964)

Lyrical style in Bridges-go-round (1958)

9. Movie genres : conventions, formulas, and audience expectations

A short history of film genre

Early film genres

1920s-1940s : genre and the studio system

1948-1970s : postwar film genres

1970s-present : new Hollywood, sequels, and global genres

The elements of film genre

Conventions

Formulas and myths

Audience expectations

Six movie genres

Comedies

Westerns

Melodramas

Musicals

Horror films

Crime films

The searchers (1956)

Crime film conventions and formulas : Chinatown (1974)

Genre revisionism : comparing True grit (1969) and True grit (2010)

Genre history in Vagabond (1985).

pt. 4. Critical perspectives : history, methods, writing

10. History and historiography : Hollywood and beyond

Early cinema

Cinema between the wars

Classical Hollywood cinema

German Expressionist cinema

Soviet silent films

French Impressionist cinema and poetic realism

Postwar Hollywood

Italian neorealism

Gilda (1946) and Rome, open city (1945)

French New Wave

Japanese cinema

Third cinema

Contemporary Hollywood

Contemporary independent cinema

Contemporary European cinema

Taxi drive and new Hollywood (1976)

Indian cinema

African cinema

Chinese cinema

Iranian cinema

The lost and found of film history

Women filmmakers

African American cinema

Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) film history

Lost and found history : Within our gates (1920)

Indigenous media

Excavating film history

11. Reading about film : critical theories and methods

The evolution of film theory

Early film theory

Classical film theories : formalism and realism

Postwar film culture and criticism

Film journals

Auteur theory

Genre theory

Contemporary film theory

Structuralism and semiotics

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Signs and meaning in Persepolis (2007)

Theories of gender and sexuality

Cultural studies

Film and philosophy

Postmodernism and new media

Clueless (1995)

12. Writing a film essay : observations, arguments, research, and analysis

Writing an analytical film essay

Personal opinion and objectivity

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Preparing to write about a film

Analysis, audience, and Minority report (2002)

Elements of film essay

Thesis statement

Outline and topic sentences

Revising, formatting, and proofreading

Writer's checklist

Researching the movies

Interpretation, argument, and evidence in Rashomon (1950)

From research to writing about The cabinet of Dr.l Caligari (1920).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-481) and index.

ISBN:

1457663546

9781457663543

9781457695858

1457695855

1137463953

9781137463951

OCLC:

892041219

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