Left or Right? directing lateral movement in film / Lubomir Kocka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kocka, Lubomir, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Left or Right? Directing Lateral Movement in Film' offers an in-depth analysis of film, television, and new media directing from a perspective of clearly articulated directorial concept linked to the placement and movement of performers in shot design. This book strives to demonstrate the mechanism of directional bias and how the effects of perceptual mechanisms can help film directors and image-makers to control, regulate, and modify the viewer's perception of characters and story movement, ultimately leading to higher quality creations.This highly hands-on, practical book provides novel insights into the significance of laterality effects, equipping film directors, and image-makers who want to create aesthetically valuable and well-crafted visual products with functional tools to employ. The book also examines lateral organization in regard to biological sex, gender identity, class, races, ethnicity, religions, and age in LGBTQ+ films and porn cinema.'Left or Right? Directing Lateral Movement in Film' holds broad appeal from experiences directors or cinematographers with an established body of work to students working to understand the language of cinema. It will also appeal to film and media theorists, as well as teachers of visual arts education.

Contents:

Preface: Prologue, Lubomir Kocka: toward a conscious / Peter Relic, Genesis

Part I. Glossary

Rules

Symmetry and asymmetry of the universe

Film director

Conscious or unconscious

Factors that influence lateral preferences

Research project

Part II. Protagonist vs. antagonist

Dominant vs. submissive

Sympathetic vs. unsympathetic characters

Directionality of movement

Pursuing and achieving goals and objectives

Returning home

History of the story

Future of the story

Character contemplates the past

Character contemplates the future

Cultural discourse and bidirectionality

Lateral directionality and its significance

Part III. Porn cinema

LGBTQ+ Cinema

Directional concept of laterality and stereotypes in film and TV.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64889-188-8