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Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson.
- Title
- Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson.
- Author
- Bordwell, David
- Publication
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thompson, Kristin, 1950-
- Description
- xviii, 526 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. In this new edition, the authors provide an introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, with images throughout the text collected from actual film frames, not from production stills or advertising photos.
- Subject
- Motion pictures > Aesthetics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
- Contents
- Film as art : creativity, technology, and business -- The significance of film form -- Narrative form -- The shot : mise-en-scene -- The shot : cinematography -- The relation of shot to shot : editing -- Sound in the cinema -- Style as a formal system -- Film genres -- Documentary, experimental, and animated films -- Film criticism : sample analyses -- Wrting a critical analysis of a film -- Historical changes in film art : conventions and choices, tradition and trends.
- ISBN
- 9780073535104 (acid-free paper)
- 0073535109 (acid-free paper)
- 9780071318310
- 0071318313
- LCCN
- ^^2012021855
- OCLC
- 793213236
- SCSB-13668500
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library