How Movies Work

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-07696-9
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 202 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1139 g

How Movies Work, offers the filmgoer an engaging and informative guide to the appreciation and evaluation of films. It provides a comprehensive consideration of movies from idea to script, casting, financing, shooting and distribution. Bruce Kawin addresses the book not just to students of film but to any filmgoer curious to know more about the process of the conception and creation of our favorite entertainment and art form.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kawin, Bruce F.

Kawin, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I
Film •d the Physical World
1. Film Appreciation
2. Parts and Wholes
3. Primary Categories
4. Montage and Mise-en-Scene
in the Narrative Film

Part II
From Shot to Bequance
1. Raw Materials
2. The Frame
3. Black-and-White and Color
4. The Soundtrack
5. The Shot
6. The Scene
7. The Sequence

Part III
The Flm Artist and the Movie Bainess
1. Who Makes a Movie?
2. Development
3. Pre-production
4. Production
5. Post-production
6. Distribution

For Further Reading
A Note to the Instructor
Glossary of Key Terms
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Kawin is Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Colorado, and author of Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Films and editor of Faulkner's MGM Screenplays.