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The dynamic frame : camera movement in classical Hollywood / Patrick Keating New York; Chichester, UK: Columbia University Press,
Call No: 233.6(73) KEAAuthor: Keting, Patrick Edition: 2019Place: New York; Chichester, UKPublisher: Columbia University PressPhysDes: xi,350 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: BERKELEY, BUSBY ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; CAMERA ANGLES ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CONVERGENCE ; FORD, JOHN ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; LAST LAUGH, THE (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924) ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHEL ; PREMINGER, OTTO ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) ; TOLAND, GREGG ; VIDOR, KING ; WELLES, ORSON Summary: The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style.
In careful readings of dozens of films, including Sunrise, The Grapes of Wrath, Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, Keating explores how major figures such as F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes. Balancing close analysis with a broader poetics of camera movement, Keating uses archival research to chronicle the technological breakthroughs and the changing division of labor that allowed for new possibilities, as well as the shifting political and cultural contexts that inspired filmmakers to use technology in new ways. An original history of film techniques and aesthetics, The Dynamic Frame shows that the classical Hollywood camera moves not to imitate the actions of an omniscient observer but rather to produce the interplay of concealment and revelation that is an essential part of the exchange between film and viewer. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231190510Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. American Cinema, German Angles -- 2. Purposes and Parallels -- 3. Dynamism, Seriality, and Convergence -- 4. Constructing Scenes with the Camera -- 5. Between Subjective and Objective -- 6. An Art of Disclosures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Fantasy and the cinema / edited by James Donald London: BFI Pub., 1989.
Call No: 735 FANAuthor: Donald, James Place: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 1989PhysDes: 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FANTASTIC FILMS ; FETISHISM IN FILMS ; GERMANY. 1895-1930 ; SLASHER FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SEX AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; SVANKMAJER, JAN ; CONDIT, CECELIA ; BAHTIN, MIHAIL ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; DURAS, MARGUERITE ; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BENEATH THE SKIN (US, Cecelia Condit, 1981) ; CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) ; INDIA SONG (FR, Marguerite Duras, 1975) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913) ; TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291) and indexesISBN: 0851702287; 0851702295 (pbk.)LON: 6190057
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Figures traced in light : on cinematic staging / David Bordwell Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005.
Call No: 631.21 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Source: USPlace: Berkeley, Calif.Publisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 314 p. : 25 cmSubject: BORDWELL, DAVID ; FEUILLADE, LOUIS ; MIZOGUCHI KENJI ; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN ; ANGELOPOULOS, THEO ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; YASUJIRO OZU ; KITANO TAKESHI ; AESTHETICS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY Notes: A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors’ performances but also through the director’s control of movement and shot design. Figures Traced in Light is a detailed consideration of how cinematic staging carries the story, expresses emotion, and beguiles the audience through pictorial composition. Ranging over the entire history of cinema and illustrating his discussion with more than five hundred frame enlargements, David Bordwell focuses on four filmmakers’ unique contributions to the technique. In-depth chapters examine the films of Louis Feuillade, masters of the 1910s serial; Mizoguchi Kenji, the great Japanese director who worked from the 1920s to the 1950s; Theo Angelopoulos, who began his career as a political modernist in the late 1960s; and Hou Hsiao-hsien, the Taiwanese filmmaker who in the 1980s became the preeminent Asian director. For comparison, Bordwell draws on films by Howard hawks, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ozu Yasujiro, Kitano Takeshi, and many other directors. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 0520241975ID2: 291
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Film and phenomenology : toward a realist theory of cinematic representation / Allan Casebier Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Call No: 626:165.62 CASAuthor: Casebier, Allan Place: Cambridge New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1991PhysDes: vii, 165 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Cambridge studies in filmSubject: HUSSERL, EDMUND ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; MARKER, CHRIS ; KUROSAWA AKIRA ; LACAN, JACQUES ; METZ, CHRISTIAN ; OSHIMA NAGISA ; YASUJIRO OZU ; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 159-160; Filmography: p. 161-162ISBN: 0521411327 (hardback)LON: 7950801
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How a film theory got lost : and other mysteries in cultural studies / Robert B Ray Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2001.
Call No: 629PHO RAYAuthor: Ray, Robert B Source: USPlace: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c2001PhysDes: xiv, 164 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY ; FILM CULTURE ; THEORY ; PHOTOGRAPHY ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; ELVIS (US, John Carpenter, 1979) Summary: Robert B Ray, in this book attempts to revive forgotten film theory, for example the theory of photogenie, and looks at what is defined as "knowledge" in film studies. He challenges accepted theories, and attempts to develop a new way of looking at film and cultural studies.Notes: Includes bibliography; Includes indexISBN: 0253214386
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Interpreting films : studies in the historical reception of American cinema / Janet Staiger Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Call No: 62 STAAuthor: Staiger, Janet Place: Princeton, N.J.Publisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 1992PhysDes: xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SPECTATORSHIP ; AUDIENCES ; ART CINEMA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; AUTHORSHIP ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; PARODY ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; BAHTIN, MIHAIL ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; DYER, RICHARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GARLAND, JUDY ; FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; ZELIG (US, Woody Allen, 1983) ; STAR IS BORN, A (US, George Cukor, 1954) ; UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and indexISBN: 0691047979 (alk. paper); 0691006164 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 8200386URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Inventing film studies / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, editors Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Call No: 670 INV GRIAuthor: Grieveson, Lee ; Wasson, Haidee Source: UKPlace: DurhamPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: American Film Institute ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; CRITICISM ; FILM ART MEDIA ; FILM CULTURE ; FILM NOIR ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; FILMOGRAPHIES ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA ; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART [NEW YORK] ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SOCIETIES, FILM ; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS ; BACHMANN, GIDEON ; BARRY, IRIS ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; BERGSTROM, JANET ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; BURGESS, ERNEST ; BUSCOMBE, ED ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; COOK, PAM ; DEREN, MAYA ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HAYS, WILL ; HEATH, STEPHEN ; HUFF, THEODORE ; MACCABE, COLIN ; METZ, CHRISTIAN ; PARK, ROBERT ; PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR ; PENLEY, CONSTANCE ; RAINER, YVONNE ; RAMSAYE, TERRY ; RICHTER, HANS ; ROTHA, PAUL ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SELDES, GILBERT ; SHORT, REV WILLIAM H ; STERN, SEYMOUR ; THRASHER, FREDRICK ; VOGEL, AMOS ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; WEINBERG, HERMAN G ; WHANNEL, PADDY ; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. -- Publisher descriptionNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780822342892Contents: The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson
-- Making Cinema Knowable --
Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson
Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson
"Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick
Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan
-- Making Cinema Educational --
Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson
Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland
Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd
From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvev, Peter Wollen
-- Making Cinema Legible --
Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest
Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen
(Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, Sharon Willis
Little Books / Mark Betz
-- Making and Remaking Cinema Studies --
Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope
Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick
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Roman Polanski / James Morrison Urbana, Ill ; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Call No: 81POL MORAuthor: Morrison, James Source: USPlace: Urbana, Ill ; ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xi, 191 p. ; 22 cmSeries: Contemporary Film DirectorsSubject: ART CINEMA ; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES ; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM ; ADAPTATIONS. HARDY, THOMAS ; ADAPTATIONS ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; AESTHETICS ; IMAGE ANALYSIS ; POLANSKI, ROMAN ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; REPULSION (UK, Roman Polanski, 1965) ; CUL-DE-SAC (UK, Roman Polanski, 1966) ; ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968) ; MACBETH (US/UK, Roman Polanski, 1971) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; LOCATAIRE, LE (FR, Roman Polanski, 1976) ; TESS (FR/UK, Roman Polanski, 1979) ; BITTER MOON (FR/UK, Roman Polanski, 1992) ; PIANIST, THE (UK/GG/FR/PL, Roman Polanski, 2002) ; OLIVER TWIST (FR/UK/CZ, Roman Polanski, 2005) ISBN: 9780252074462Contents: Captive minds: Polanski and modernity. -- Comedy, melodrama, and gentrification in Polanski's films -- Cul-de-Sac and the 1960's art cinema -- Polanski in the new Hollywood -- Polanski and the art film's second wave -- Rendering classics: Macbeth and Tess -- Discovering the Figural in Polanski's films -- Interviews with Roman Polanski -- filmography, bibliography, index
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Storytelling in film and television / Kristin Thompson Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Call No: 632.2 THOAuthor: Thompson, Kristin Edition: 1st ed.Source: USAPlace: Cambridge, MassachusettsPublisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 172 p ; 20cm + b&w ill.Subject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADVERTISING ; CHARACTERS ON TV ; DRAMAS ; INTERNET ; SCRIPTWRITING ; SYMBOLISM ON TV ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN TV ; SEQUELS ; SERIALS ; SITUATION COMEDY ; SOAP OPERAS ; MERCHANDISING ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; CLEESE, JOHN ; FROST MARK ; KAEL, PAULINE ; LYNCH, DAVID ; NEWCOMB, HORACE ; WILLIAMS, RAYMOND ; WODEHOUSE, P.G ; AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69) ; BAD GIRLS [TV] (UK, 1999-) ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; BOB NEWHART SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1961-62) ; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV] (US, 1997-2004) ; HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87) ; MURPHY BROWN [TV] (US, 1988-) ; ROYLE FAMILY, THE [TV] (UK, 1998-2000) ; SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) ; SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999) ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; YES MINISTER [TV] (UK, 1980-84) Summary: Author Kristin Thompson analyses the narrative workings of television and film, looking at the narrative techniques the two media share. Thomson then focuses on the specific challenges that series television presents and the tactics writers have devised to meet them – tactics that sustain interest and maintain sense across multiple plots and subplots and in spite of frequent interruptions as well as weeklong and seasonal breaks.
[Taken from back cover].ISBN: 0674010876
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Theories of cinema, 1945-1995 / Francesco Casetti ; translated by Francesca Chiostri and Elizabeth Gard Bartolini-Salimbeni, with Thomas Kelso Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Call No: 62 CASAuthor: Casetti, Francesco Edition: 1st edPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 368 p. ; 24 cmSubject: THEORY ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SEMIOLOGY ; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; PERCEPTION ; SPECTATORSHIP ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; DELEUZE, GILLES ; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED ; LACAN, JACQUES ; HORKHEIMER, MAX ; MITRY, JEAN ; MORAN, EDGAR ; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS ; METZ, CHRISTIAN Notes: "Revised and updated by the author."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and indexISBN: 0292712065 (hc :acid-free paper); 0292712073 (pbk.)LON: 14328673
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