Film Studies

An Introduction

Ed Sikov

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9780231519892
• Topic: Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
• Subtopic: Regia e produzione cinematografica

Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in the special techniques of film analysis. His description of mise-en-scene helps readers grasp the significance of montage, which in turn reveals the importance of a director's use of camera movement. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, lighting, the use of color and sound, and narrative. Film Studies works with any screening list and can be used within courses on film history, film theory, or popular culture. Straightforward explanations of core critical concepts, practical advice, and suggested assignments on particular technical, visual, and aesthetic aspects further anchor the reader's understanding of the formal language and anatomy of film.

INDEX

Academy aperture. See Academy ratio

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Academy ratio

acting, analyzing and writing about, acting styles

action films

The Actors Studio

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005)

Aldrich, Robert: Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Alien (1979)

All About Eve (1950)

Allegheny Uprising (1939)

Altman, Rick

Altman, Robert: The Long Goodbye (1973)

ambient sounds

Amblin Entertainment

American Cinema (Sarris)

American Film/American Culture (Belton)

American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States (AFI Catalog)

American Gangster (2007)

American montage

American Optical Company, amplitude

analog recording and editing

analysis in film studies: of acting, of attribution, of camera movement, of cinematography, discussed, of genre, of scene-to-scene editing, of shots, of shot-to-shot editing, of sound, of special effects, of story

anamorphic frames

anamorphic lens

Anderson, Paul Thomas, Boogie Nights (1997)

Angels and Demons (2009)

animation

animation cels

Aniston, Jennifer

Annie Hall (1977)

Anschutz, Philip

The Apartment (1960)

A pictures

Aristotle

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895)

art, films as

art director. See production designer

Arzner, Dorothy, Christopher Strong (1933)

aspect ratio: depicted, discussed, form and meaning, See also Academy ratio; CinemaScope; Panavision; VistaVision; widescreen processes

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Astruc, Alexandre

asynchronous sounds, See also offscreen sound

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)

attribution

Audition (1999)

Auntie Em (movie character)

aural space

auteurism

auteur theory

authorship in filmmaking

avant-garde films

backlight

backstage musicals

Back to the Future III (1990)

Bad Guy type

Badlands (1973)

Bale, Christian

Ball of Fire (1941)

Bardot, Brigitte

Barrymore, Drew

Barrymore, John

base (motion picture film)

baseball films

Batman (1989)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Bazin, André

behind the camera space

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Bell Labs

Belton, John

best boy

Bigger Than Life (1956)

The Big Heat (1952)

The Big Sleep (1946)

biopics

bird’s-eye shots

black-and-white cinematogr...