- Film Art
"Film Art" was written by David Bordwell, a professor of Film Studies at the
University of Wisconsin-Madision . Other books includes "Narration in the Fiction film" (university Wisconsin Press, 1985) and "The Cinema of Eisenstein" (Harvard University Press, 1993); and Kristin Thompson an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has also publish works such as Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible: A Neoformalist Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1981)."Film Art" serves as a basic tool that outlines the basic components of film as an art:
mise-en-scene , editing, narrative, sound, andcinematography .Chapters
PART ONE Film Art and Filmmaking1. Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business"'PART TW0 Film Form"'2. The Significance of Film Form3. Narrative as a Formal Style
PART THREE Film Style4. The Shot: Mise-en-Scene5. The Shot: Cinematography6. The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing7. Sound in the Cinema8. Summary: Style as a Formal System
PART FOUR Types of Films9. Film Genres10. Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films
PART FIVE Critical Analysis of Films11. Film Criticism: Sample Analyses
PART SIX Film History12 Film Art and Film History
References
Bordwell, David. Thompson, Kristin: Film Art
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