The language of film / Robert Edgar-Hunt, John Marland, Steven Rawle.

By:

Edgar-Hunt, Robert

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Basics film-making ; 04.Publication details: Lausanne : AVA Publishing SA ; c2010.Description: 191 p.: color illustrations; 23 cmISBN:

9782940411276 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

791.44 BAS

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	791.44 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100713768

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Basics Film-Making 04- The Language of Film explores the means by which film communicates meaning. Most films are a mosaic of fractured images and fragmented narratives, yet we have little problem piecing them together into a complete, meaningful sequence. The average audience is capable of following the most labyrinthine plots, feeling genuine emotion for characters, and believing that their worlds continue to exist even after the film has ended. This book discusses the stories films tell, the sign-systems they deploy, the interpretive contexts we are invited to place them in, and the range of aesthetic elements which contribute to the cinematic image.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction
Chapter One Narrative
Narrative Structures
Time
Channels of Communication
Image and Sound
Chapter Two Semiotics
Signs
Denotation / Connotation
Metaphor / Metonomy
Codes
Conventions
Chapter Three Intertextuality
Memesis
Textuality
Genre
Intertexts
Grand Narratives
Chapter Four Ideology
Form
Ideology and Genre
Authorfunction
Realist and Non-Realist Forms
Imparting Meaning
Chapter Five Aesthetics
The shot
Distance, height and framing
Mise en scene
The mobile camera frame
Time &the long take
Chapter Six Constructing Meaning
Continuity Editing
Discontinuity Editing
Montage
Sound editing and filmic space
Chapter Seven dir: David Fincher)
Citizen Kane (dir: Orson Welles)
The Pillow Book (dir: Peter Greenaway)
The Matrix (dir: Andy and Larry Wachowski)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir:Michel Gondry)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Robert Edgar-Hunt is Head of Programme for Film and TV Production at York St. John University where he is developing postgraduate provision in Screenwriting and Film Production. He practices as a screenwriter and has research interests in creative writing, postmodernism and film directing. John Marland is Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Production at York St. John University, where he has taught and developed both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in scriptwriting. His research interests include the relationship between film and psychoanalysis. Steven Rawle is Lecturer in Film Studies at York St John University, where he teaches film form and the politics of global cultural production. His research interests include transnational aesthetics, cult Asian film genres, film performance and cinematic images of memory.