The short story of film : a pocket guide to key genres, films, movements & techniques / Ian Haydn Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Ian Haydn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Laurence King Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

The Short Story of Film is a new and innovative introduction to the art of film-making. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key movies, from superhero blockbusters to indie darlings. The design of the book allows the reader to navigate their way around key genres, movements and techniques with ease. Accessible, concise and fun to read, this pocket guide will give moviegoers a new way to enjoy their favourite films and to discover new ones to watch.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: GENRES

Western

Historical Epic

Race Film

War

Action

Anti-War

Gangster

Horror

Musical

Romantic Comedy

Screwball Comedy

Melodrama

Propaganda

Documentary

Film Noir

Teen Drama

Jidaigeki

Spaghetti Western

Period Drama

Art Film

Slasher

Giallo

Conspiracy Thriller

Police Procedural

Feminist Film

Blaxploitation

Disaster Movie

Road Movie

Martial Arts

Blockbuster

Sci-Fi

Psychological Thriller

Mockumentary

Hood Film

Slow Cinema

Superhero Movie

KEY FILMS

Intolerance / D.W. Griffith

Battleship Potemkin / Sergei Eisenstein

The General / Buster Keaton

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans / F.W. Murnau

Metropolis / Fritz Lang

City Lights / Charles Chaplin

L'Atalante / Jean Vigo

Bringing Up Baby / Howard Hawks

The Rules of the Game / Jean Renoir

Citizen Kane / Orson Welles

Rome, Open City / Roberto Rossellini

Singin in the Rain / Gene Kelly

Tokyo Story / Yasujiro Ozu

Seven Samurai / Akira Kurosawa

Rather Panchali / Satyajit Ray

The Searchers / John Ford

Vertigo / Alfred Hitchcock

Some Like It Hot / Billy Wilder

A Bout de Souffle / Jean-Luc Godard

La Dolce Vita / Federico Fellini

L'Avventura / Michelangelo Antonioni

The Exterminating Angel / Luis Bunuel

Cleo from 5 to 7 / Agnes Varda

The Battle of Algiers / Gillo Pontecorvo

Persona / Ingmar Bergman

Au Hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson

Once Upon a Time in the West / Sergio Leone

2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick

The Conformist / Bernardo Bertolucci

Aguirre, The Wrath of God / Werner Herzog

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul / Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Jaws / Steven Spielberg

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles / Chantal Akerman

Taxi Driver / Martin Scorsese

Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola

Stalker / Andrei Tarkovsky

Blade Runner / Ridley Scott

Blue Velvet / David Lynch

Do the Right Thing / Spike Lee

Close-Up / Abbas Kiarostami

The Piano / Jane Campion

Pulp Fiction / Quentin Tarantino

All About My Mother / Pedro Almodovar

Beau Travail / Claire Denis

In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai

Lost in Translation / Sofia Coppola

Moolaade / Ousmane Sembene

There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson

Moonlight / Barry Jenkins

Roma / Alfonso Cuaron

MOVEMENTS

German Expressionism

Soviet Montage

Surrealist Cinema

Poetic Realism

Italian Neorealism

Parallel Cinema

Polish Film School

French New Wave

British New Wave

Japanese New Wave

Cinema Novo

Czech New Wave

New German Cinema

New Hollywood

Iranian New Wave

Australian New Wave

Hong Kong New Wave

Cinema du Look

Taiwanese New Wave

Chinese Fifth Generation

New Queer Cinema

Dogme 95

New Mexican Cinema

New French Extremity

Mumblecore

Romanian New Wave

TECHNIQUES

Film

Colour

Master Shot

Continuity Editing

Tracking Shot

Panning Shot

Zoom

Cross-Cutting

Montage

Close-Up

Deep Focus

Jump Cut

Film Transition

Lighting

Production Design

Costume Design

Make-Up

Star System

Sound

Music

Method Acting

Cinema Verite

Slow Motion

Steadicam

Special Effects

Visual Effects

Digital

3D.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781786275639

1786275635

OCLC:

1140162680

Publisher Number:

99987142447