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Distribution: The Center of Power

Exhibition: Theatrical and Nontheatrical

Ancillary Markets: Taking Movies Beyond the Theater

BOX:
Movies On Screen: A 2007 Profile Of Theatrical Exhibition

Artistic Implications of Distribution and Exhibition

SUMMARY

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PART TWO • Film Form

 

CHAPTER 2
The Significance of Film Form

 

The Concept of Form in Film

Form as System

“Form” Versus “Content”

Formal Expectations

Conventions and Experience

Form and Feeling

Form and Meaning

Evaluation

Principles of Film Form

Function

Similarity and Repetition

A CLOSER LOOK:
Picking Out Patterns

Difference and Variation

Development

Unity and Disunity

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CHAPTER 3
Narrative as a Formal System

 

Principles of Narrative Construction

What Is Narrative?

Plot and Story

Cause and Effect

Time

Space

A CLOSER LOOK:
Playing Games with Story Time

Openings, Closings, and Patterns of Development

Narration: The Flow of Story Information

Range of Story Information

Depth of Story Information

The Narrator

A CLOSER LOOK:
When the Lights Go Down, the Narration Starts

Summing Up Narration

The Classical Hollywood Cinema

Narrative Form in
Citizen Kane

Overall Narrative Expectations in
Citizen Kane

Plot and Story in
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
’s Causality

Time in
Citizen Kane

Motivation in
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
’s Parallelism

Patterns of Plot Development in
Citizen Kane

Narration in
Citizen Kane

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PART THREE • Film Style

 

CHAPTER 4
The Shot: Mise-en-Scene

 

What Is Mise-en-Scene?

Realism

The Power of Mise-en-Scene

Aspects of Mise-en-Scene

Setting

Costume and Makeup

Lighting

Staging: Movement and Performance

A CLOSER LOOK:
The Film Actor’s Toolkit

Putting It All Together: Mise-en-Scene in Space and Time

Space

Time

Narrative Functions of Mise-en-Scene in
Our Hospitality

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CHAPTER 5
The Shot: Cinematography

 

The Photographic Image

The Range of Tonalities

Speed of Motion

Perspective

A CLOSER LOOK:
From Monsters to the Mundane: Computer-Generated Imagery in
The Lord of the Rings

Framing

Frame Dimensions and Shape

Onscreen and Offscreen Space

Angle, Level, Height, and Distance of Framing

The Mobile Frame

Duration of the Image: The Long Take

Functions of the Long Take

The Long Take and the Mobile Frame

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CHAPTER 6
The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing

 

What Is Editing?

Dimensions of Film Editing

Graphic Relations Between Shot A and Shot B

Rhythmic Relations Between Shot A and Shot B

Spatial Relations Between Shot A and Shot B

Temporal Relations Between Shot A and Shot B

Continuity Editing

Spatial Continuity: The 180° System

Continuity Editing in
The Maltese Falcon

Continuity Editing: Some Fine Points

More Refinements: Crossing the Axis of Action

Crosscutting

Temporal Continuity: Order, Frequency, and Duration

A CLOSER LOOK:
Intensified Continuity:
L.A. Confidential
and Contemporary Editing

Alternatives to Continuity Editing

Graphic and Rhythmic Possibilities

Spatial and Temporal Discontinuity

Functions of Discontinuity Editing:
October

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CHAPTER 7
Sound in the Cinema

 

The Powers of Sound

Fundamentals of Film Sound

Perceptual Properties

Selection, Alteration, and Combination

Dimensions of Film Sound

Rhythm

Fidelity

Space

A CLOSER LOOK:
Offscreen Sound and Optical Point of View: The Money Exchange in
Jackie Brown

Time

Functions of Film Sound:
The Prestige

Transported Men

The Sounds of Magic

Echoes, Visual and Auditory

Two Diaries

Hinting at Secrets

The Opening

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