Film Language

Author : Daniel Arijon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106016757863

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Grammar of the Film Language by Daniel Arijon Pdf

A unique guide to the visual narrative techniques that form the "language" of filmmaking. This language is basic to the very positioning and moving of players and cameras, as well as the sequencing and pacing of images. It does not date as new technologies alter the means of capturing images on film and tape. The guidelines offered here will inform almost every choice that the director, the cinematographer, and the editor will make. Through lucid text and more than 1,500 illustrations, Arijon presents visual narrative formulas that will enlighten anyone involved in the motion picture and television industry (including producers, writers, and animators).--From publisher description.

Author : Robert Edgar,John Marland,Steven Rawle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472575258

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The Language of Film by Robert Edgar,John Marland,Steven Rawle Pdf

An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen. Packed with examples from classic and contemporary cinema, The Language of Film reveals the essential building blocks of film and explains how the screen communicates meaning to its audience. You will learn about fundamental theories and concepts, including film semiotics, narrative structures, ideology, and genre, as well as how elements such as shot size, camera movement, editing technique, and color come together to create the cinematic image. With insightful case studies and discussion questions, dozens of practical tips and exercises, and a new chapter on film sound, this new edition of The Language of Film is a must-have guide for aspiring filmmakers.

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0226521303

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Film Language by Christian Metz Pdf

A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cinéma: langue ou langage?'"—Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement "Modern film theory begins with Metz."—Constance Penley, coeditor of Camera Obscura "Any consideration of semiology in relation to the particular field signifying practice of film passes inevitably through a reference to the work of Christian Metz. . . . The first book to be written in this field, [Film Language] is important not merely because of this primacy but also because of the issues it raises . . . issues that have become crucial to the contemporary argument."—Stephen Heath, Screen

Author : Robert Edgar-Hunt,John Marland,Steven Rawle
Publisher : AVA Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782940411276

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Basics Film-Making 04: The Language of Film by Robert Edgar-Hunt,John Marland,Steven Rawle Pdf

Basics Film-Making: The Language of Film presents complex ideas in a clear and straightforward style, enabling you to apply these ideas to your own analysis or film-making. --

Author : Robert Edgar,John Marland,Steven Rawle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474249225

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The Language of Film by Robert Edgar,John Marland,Steven Rawle Pdf

An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen. Packed with examples from classic and contemporary cinema, The Language of Film reveals the essential building blocks of film and explains how the screen communicates meaning to its audience. You will learn about fundamental theories and concepts, including film semiotics, narrative structures, ideology, and genre, as well as how elements such as shot size, camera movement, editing technique, and color come together to create the cinematic image. With insightful case studies and discussion questions, dozens of practical tips and exercises, and a new chapter on film sound, this new edition of The Language of Film is a must-have guide for aspiring filmmakers.

Author : Lucy Fischer,Patrice Petro
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291330

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Teaching Film by Lucy Fischer,Patrice Petro Pdf

Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies continues to expand and thrive, attracting new scholars and fresh ideas, direction, and research. Given the dynamism of the field, experienced and beginning instructors alike need resources for bringing the study of film into the classroom. This volume will help instructors conceptualize contemporary film studies in pedagogical terms. The first part of the volume features essays on theory and on representation, including gender, race, and sexuality. Contributors then examine the geographies of cinema and offer practical suggestions for structuring courses on national, regional, and transnational film. Several essays focus on interdisciplinary approaches, while others describe courses designed around genre (film noir, the musical), mode (animation, documentary, avant-garde film), or the formal elements of film, such as sound, music, and mise-en-scene. The volume closes with a section on film and media in the digital age, in which contributors discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by access to resources, media convergence, and technological developments in the field.

Author : Jean-Claude Carrière
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015032098116

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The Secret Language of Film by Jean-Claude Carrière Pdf

Carriere, whose screenwriting credits include The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Cyrano de Bergerac, explores the vocabulary of the visual language of film. Filled with anecdote and insight, this book provides readers with an illuminating new way to see and enjoy the movies.

Author : Carmen Herrero,Isabelle Vanderschelden
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788924504

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Using Film and Media in the Language Classroom by Carmen Herrero,Isabelle Vanderschelden Pdf

This book demonstrates the positive impact of using film and audiovisual material in the language classroom. The chapters are evidence-based and address different levels and contexts of learning around the world. They demonstrate the benefits of using moving images and films to develop intercultural awareness and promote multilingualism, and suggest Audiovisual Translation (AVT) activities and projects to enhance language learning. The book will be a valuable continuing professional development resource for language teachers and those involved in curriculum development, as well as bringing the latest research, theory and pedagogical techniques to teacher training courses.

Author : Xuelin Zhou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317194118

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Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film by Xuelin Zhou Pdf

This book explores the vigorous film cultures of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong from the perspective of youth culture. The book relates this important topic to the wider social, cultural, and institutional context, and discusses the relationship between the films and the changes that today are transforming each society. Among the areas explored are the differences between the three film industries, their creation of new types of screen hero and heroine, and their conflicts with traditional Chinese attitudes such as respect for age. The many films discussed provide fresh perspectives on the ways in which young people are coping with gender, sexuality, class, coming of age, the pressures of education, and major social shifts such as rural to urban migration. They show young adults in each society striving to construct new value systems for a complex, rapidly changing environment.

Author : Edward Branigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135379520

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Projecting a Camera: Language-Games in Film Theory by Edward Branigan Pdf

In Projecting a Camera, film theorist Edward Branigan offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding film theory. Why, for example, does a camera move? What does a camera "know"? (And when does it know it?) What is the camera's relation to the subject during long static shots? What happens when the screen is blank? Through a wide-ranging engagement with Wittgenstein and theorists of film, he offers one of the most fully developed understandings of the ways in which the camera operates in film. With its thorough grounding in the philosophy of spectatorship and narrative, Projecting a Camera takes the study of film to a new level. With the care and precision that he brought to Narrative Comprehension and Film, Edward Branigan maps the ways in which we must understand the role of the camera, the meaning of the frame, the role of the spectator, and other key components of film-viewing. By analyzing how we think, discuss, and marvel about the films we see, Projecting a Camera, offers insights rich in implications for our understanding of film and film studies.

Author : Will Lehman,Margit Grieb
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781599425481

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Cultural Perspectives on Film, Literature, and Language by Will Lehman,Margit Grieb Pdf

This volume includes selected papers from the 19th Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Film, held on February 26-27, 2010, at the University of South Florida in Tampa. It represents a cross-section of the latest trends in Hispanic, French, German, Italian, and Greek studies.

Author : Christopher Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521002095

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Class, Language, and American Film Comedy by Christopher Beach Pdf

Examines the use of class in the American film comedy, from the 1930s to present.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2028 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular English-language Film Directors by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Sheldon H. Lu,Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015059199029

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Chinese-language Film by Sheldon H. Lu,Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh Pdf

A comprehensive work on Chinese film, this text explores the manifold dimensions of the subject and highlights areas overlooked in previous studies. Leading scholars take up issues and topics covering the entire range of Chinese cinema.

Author : James Monaco
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015080886594

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How to Read a Film by James Monaco Pdf

A new edition of a genuine classic in film studies, featuring a new preface and several new sections. 'Against Art' suggests restoring the balance between the virtual world of art and the real world. 'Morphing' discusses the untrustworthy nature of digital images and sounds. 'The Virtual World' describes contemporary culture where everyone is connected to each other's images, and how the ring-tone market rivals the feature film business.