Vincent Lobrutto

Becoming Film Literate (eBook, PDF)

The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto provides an enjoyable and accessible education in the art of cinema: using 50 landmark films spanning the history of the medium, LoBrutto illustrates such important concepts as editing, production design, cinematography, sound, screen acting, narrative structure, and various genres, nationalities, and film eras. Each concept is illustrated by the selection of a film that epitomizes its use, so that readers will learn about film authorship in Citizen Kane, multiplot narrative in Nashville, widescreen filmmaking in Rebel without a Cause, and screen violence in The Wild Bunch. Explaining the various tricks of the moviemaking trade, Becoming Film Literate offers a crash course in cinema, one designed to give even the novice reader a solid introduction to this complex and multifaceted medium.

Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto provides an enjoyable and accessible education in the art of cinema: using 50 landmark films spanning the history of the medium, LoBrutto illustrates such important concepts as editing, production design, cinematography, sound, screen acting, narrative structure, and various genres, nationalities, and film eras. Each concept is illustrated by the selection of a film that epitomizes its use, so that readers will learn about film authorship in Citizen Kane, multiplot narrative in Nashville, widescreen filmmaking in Rebel without a Cause, and screen violence in The Wild Bunch.

Providing a unique opportunity to become acquainted with important movies and the elements of their greatness, Becoming Film Literate offers a crash course in cinema, one designed to give even the novice reader a solid introduction to this complex and multifaceted medium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313088681
• Artikelnr.: 37827456

Autorenporträt

VINCENT LoBRUTTO is a faculty member for the Department of Film, Video and Animation at the School of Visual Arts. He has been a film production coordinator as well as a free-lance film editor. Among his publications are Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing (Praeger, 1990) and By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers (Praeger, 1992). LoBrutto is currently writing his fourth book for Praeger based on interviews with feature film cinematographers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Non-Linear Storytelling: Amores Perros
Transformation of the American Comedy: Annie Hall Tableau Narrative
Structure and Sound Design: Apocalypse Now The Body as Cinematic Landscape:
L'Avventura Editing: Russian Montage: The Battleship Potemkin Italian
Neorealism: The Bicycle Thief Production Design: Blade Runner Dream State:
Blue Velvet The Period Film as Mirror for the Present: Bonnie and Clyde
Expressionism in Cinema: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Classical Hollywood
Film Style: Cassablanca Surrealism in Cinema: Un Chien Andalou The
Authorial Voice: Citizen Kane Shot Structure: The Crowd Thematic Unity: The
Decalogue Mythopoetic Film: Dog Star Man Political Objectives through
Cinematic Storytelling: Do the Right Thing Film Noir: Double Idemnity The
Personal Film: 8 1/2 Animation and Music: Fantasia An American Musical:
42nd Street New York Filmmaking: The French Connection Period Comedy: The
General Parallel Storytelling: Intolerance French New Wave: Jules and Jim
The Epic: Lawrence of Arabia The Political Thriller: The Manchurian
Candidate Self-Referential Cinema: Man with the Movie Camera Architecture
in Production Design: Metropolis Roots of Documentary Film: Nanook of the
North Multiplot, Multicharacter Narrative: Nashville Method Acting: On the
Waterfront The Close Up: The Passion of Joan of Arc Dark Side of American
Cinema: Psycho Subtext in Personal Expression: Raging Bull Multiple
Point-of-View Narrative: Rashomon Widescreen Filmmaking: Rebel without a
Cause Camera Movement as Metaphor: LaRonde Mise-en-Scene: Rules of the Game
Direct Cinema: Salesman The Freudian Western: The Searchers Defining Theme,
Metaphor, and Character through Color, Texture, and Environmental Design:
Se7en Symbolism in the Cinema: The Seventh Seal Art of the B-Movie: Shock
Corridor Digital Filmmaking: Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Birth of a Nonfiction Film Style: The Thin Blue Line Experimental
Narrative: 2001: A Space Odyssey The Essay Film: Weekend Screen Violence as
Metaphor: The Wild Bunch Independent Filmmaking: A Woman Under the
Influence Glossary Bibliography Index