Author : David A. Cook
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393288722
A History of Narrative Film
David A. Cook
A History Of Narrative Film
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Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film
Ed S. Tan
Author : Ed S. Tan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136694974
Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film by Ed S. Tan Pdf
Introduced one hundred years ago, film has since become part of our lives. For the past century, however, the experience offered by fiction films has remained a mystery. Questions such as why adult viewers cry and shiver, and why they care at all about fictional characters -- while aware that they contemplate an entirely staged scene -- are still unresolved. In addition, it is unknown why spectators find some film experiences entertaining that have a clearly aversive nature outside the cinema. These and other questions make the psychological status of emotions allegedly induced by the fiction film highly problematic. Earlier attempts to answer these questions have been limited to a few genre studies. In recent years, film criticism and the theory of film structure have made use of psychoanalytic concepts which have proven insufficient in accounting for the diversity of film induced affect. In contrast, academic psychology -- during the century of its existence -- has made extensive study of emotional responses provoked by viewing fiction film, but has taken the role of film as a natural stimulus completely for granted. The present volume bridges the gap between critical theories of film on the one hand, and recent psychological theory and research of human emotion on the other, in an attempt to explain the emotions provoked by fiction film. This book integrates insights on the narrative structure of fiction film including its themes, plot structure, and characters with recent knowledge on the cognitive processing of natural events, and narrative and person information. It develops a theoretical framework for systematically describing emotion in the film viewer. The question whether or not film produces genuine emotion is answered by comparing affect in the viewer with emotion in the real world experienced by persons witnessing events that have personal significance to them. Current understanding of the psychology of emotions provides the basis for identifying critical features of the fiction film that trigger the general emotion system. Individual emotions are classified according to their position in the affect structure of a film -- a larger system of emotions produced by one particular film as a whole. Along the way, a series of problematic issues is dealt with, notably the reality of the emotional stimulus in film, the identification of the viewer with protagonists on screen, and the necessity of the viewer's cooperation in arriving at a genuine emotion. Finally, it is argued that film-produced emotions are genuine emotions in response to an artificial stimulus. Film can be regarded as a fine-tuned machine for a continuous stream of emotions that are entertaining after all. The work paves the way for understanding and, in principle, predicting emotions in the film viewer using existing psychological instruments of investigation. Dealing with the problems of film-induced affect and rendering them accessible to formal modeling and experimental method serves a wider interest of understanding aesthetic emotion -- the feelings that man-made products, and especially works of art, can evoke in the beholder.
A New History of Japanese Cinema
Isolde Standish
Author : Isolde Standish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441161543
A New History of Japanese Cinema by Isolde Standish Pdf
In A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish focuses on the historical development of Japanese film. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation. Adopting a thematic, exploratory approach, Standish links the concept of Japanese cinema as a system of communication with some of the central discourses of the twentieth century: modernism, nationalism, humanism, resistance, and gender. After an introduction outlining the earliest years of cinema in Japan, Standish demonstrates cinema's symbolic position in Japanese society in the 1930s - as both a metaphor and a motor of modernity. Moving into the late thirties and early forties, Standish analyses cinema's relationship with the state-focusing in particular on the war and occupation periods. The book's coverage of the post-occupation period looks at "romance" films in particular. Avant-garde directors came to the fore during the 1960s and early seventies, and their work is discussed in depth. The book concludes with an investigation of genre and gender in mainstream films of recent years. In grappling with Japanese film history and criticism, most western commentators have concentrated on offering interpretations of what have come to be considered "classic" films. A New History of Japanese Cinema takes a genuinely innovative approach to the subject, and should prove an essential resource for many years to come.
Closely Watched Films
Marilyn Fabe
Author : Marilyn Fabe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520279971
Closely Watched Films by Marilyn Fabe Pdf
"Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch"--Page [4] of cover.
On the History of Film Style
David Bordwell
Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0674634292
On the History of Film Style by David Bordwell Pdf
Bordwell scrutinizes the theories of style launched by various film historians and celebrates a century of cinema. The author examines the contributions of many directors and shows how film scholars have explained stylistic continuity and change.
D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film
Tom Gunning
Author : Tom Gunning
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 025206366X
D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film by Tom Gunning Pdf
The legendary filmmaker D. W. Griffith directed nearly 200 films during 1908 and 1909, his first years with the Biograph Company. While those one-reel films are a testament to Griffith's inspired genius as a director, they also reflect a fundamental shift in film style from "cheap amusements" to movie storytelling complete with characters and narrative impetus. In this comprehensive historical investigation, drawing on films preserved by the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art, Tom Gunning reveals that the remarkable cinematic changes between 1900 and 1915 were a response to the radical reorganization within the film industry and the evolving role of film in American society. The Motion Picture Patents Company, the newly formed Film Trust, had major economic aspirations. The newly emerging industry's quest for a middle-class audience triggered Griffith's early experiments in film editing and imagery. His unique solutions permanently shaped American narrative film.
Altman and After
Peter F. Parshall
Author : Peter F. Parshall
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810885073
Altman and After by Peter F. Parshall Pdf
In Altman & After: Multiple Narratives in Film, Peter Parshall carefully examines films that feature various plotlines. In each chapter, Parshall looks at a different example of the multi-plot form, such as network narrative and the multiple-draft narrative, demonstrating that the structure of each is central to their artistry, and that these devices open up a variety of creative vistas. Films studied in this book include Nashville, Pulp Fiction, Amores Perros, Code Unknown, The Edge of Heaven, Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Run Lola Run, and Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy: Red, White, and Blue.
Looking at Movies
Richard Meran Barsam,Dave Monahan
Author : Richard Meran Barsam,Dave Monahan
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0393115402
Looking at Movies by Richard Meran Barsam,Dave Monahan Pdf
Disc 1 offers 25 short 'tutorials,' helping students see what the text describes. Disc 2 includes an anthology of 12 short films, from 5 to 30 minutes in length. Together, the DVDs offer nearly five hours of pedagogically useful moving-image content.
An Introduction to Film Analysis
Michael Ryan,Melissa Lenos
Author : Michael Ryan,Melissa Lenos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501318559
An Introduction to Film Analysis by Michael Ryan,Melissa Lenos Pdf
An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through: -the basic technical terms -shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences -set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-production, art direction and more -each chapter provides clear examples and full colour images from classic as well as contemporary films Ryan and Lenos's updated edition introduces students to the different kinds of lenses and their effects, the multiple possibilities of lighting, and the way post-production modifies images through such processes as saturation and desaturation. Students will learn to ask why the camera is placed where it is, why an edit occurs where it does, or why the set is designed in a certain way. The second section of the book focuses on critical analysis, introducing students to the various approaches to film, from psychology to history, with new analysis on postcolonial, transnational and Affect Theory. New to this edition is a third section featuring several in-depth analyses of films to put into practice what comes before: The Birds, The Shining, Vagabond, In the Mood for Love, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
Narrative and Narration
Warren Buckland
Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231543590
Narrative and Narration by Warren Buckland Pdf
From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains how narrative and narration work using straightforward language. Narrative and Narration distills the basic components of cinematic storytelling into a set of core concepts: narrative structure, processes of narration, and narrative agents. The book opens with a discussion of the emergence of narrative and narration in early cinema and proceeds to illustrate key ideas through numerous case studies. Each chapter guides readers through different methods that they can use to analyze cinematic storytelling. Buckland also discusses how departures from traditional modes, such as feminist narratives, art cinema, and unreliable narrators, can complicate and corroborate the book’s understanding of narrative and narration. Examples include mainstream films, both classic and contemporary; art house films of every stripe; and two relatively new styles of cinematic storytelling: the puzzle film and those driven by a narrative logic derived from video games. Narrative and Narration is a concise introduction that provides readers with fundamental tools to understand cinematic storytelling.
The Woman's Film of the 1940s
Alison L. McKee
Author : Alison L. McKee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135053703
The Woman's Film of the 1940s by Alison L. McKee Pdf
This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman’s film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history, and this book challenges and modifies that understanding, contextualizing the films it considers against the backdrop of World War II. In addition, in paying tribute to and departing from earlier feminist formulations about gendered spectatorship in cinema, McKee argues that such models emphasized a masculine-centered gaze at the inadvertent expense of understanding other possible modes of identification and gender expression in classical narrative cinema. She proposes ways of understanding gender and narrative based in part on literary narrative theory and ultimately works toward a notion of an androgynous spectatorship and mode of interpretation in the 1940s woman’s film.
Story and Discourse
Seymour Chatman
Author : Seymour Chatman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501741616
Story and Discourse by Seymour Chatman Pdf
"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way' (Discourse)... Chatman's command of his material is impressive."—Library Journal
Narrative Mortality
Catherine Russell
Author : Catherine Russell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0816624860
Narrative Mortality by Catherine Russell Pdf
What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell shows us in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s. Analyzing the structural importance of death in narrative endings, as well as the thematics of loss and redemption, Russell identifies mortality as a valuable critical tool for understanding the cinema of the second half of the twentieth century. Her work includes close textual readings of films by Fritz Lang, Wim Wenders, Oshima Nagisa, Jean-Luc Godard, and Robert Altman, among others. In these analyses, Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which she traces to anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, and also to the persistence of desire. Drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, she shows us death as a fundamentally allegorical structure in cinema - and as a potential sign of historical difference, with crucial implications for theories of film narrative and spectatorship. "Narrative Mortality" provides an insight into the dynamics of postmodern cinema as it emerged from the modernist preoccupation with existential mortality. By tracing the role of death from a work that precedes the Brechtian cinema of the 60s ("Beyond a reasonable doubt") to several that succeed it ("Nashville", "The State of things"), the book expands the narrative project of new wave cinema and ushers it onto a broad historical plane.
Introduction To Film Criticism: Major Critical Approaches To Narrative Film
Tim Bywater
Author : Tim Bywater
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : 8131727483
Introduction To Film Criticism: Major Critical Approaches To Narrative Film by Tim Bywater Pdf
The Children's Film
Noel Brown
Author : Noel Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231851114
The Children's Film by Noel Brown Pdf
Films for children and young people are a constant in the history of cinema, from its beginnings to the present day. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideologies, and common narrative and stylistic principles. Opening with a thorough consideration of how the genre may be defined, this volume goes on to explore how children's cinema has developed across its broad historical and geographic span, with particular reference to films from the United States, Britain, France, Denmark, Russia, India, and China. Analyzing changes and continuities in how children's film has been conceived, it argues for a fundamental distinction between commercial productions intended primarily to entertain, and non-commercial films made under pedagogical principles, and produced for purposes of moral and behavioral instruction. In elaborating these different forms, this book outlines a history of children's cinema from the early days of commercial cinema to the present, explores key critical issues, and provides case studies of major children's films from around the world.