Film Art

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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 Teh Cinema of Eisenstein (Harvard University Press, 1993); and Kristin Thompson an Honary Fellow at teh 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, and cinematography.

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PART ONE Film Art and Filmmaking 1. Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business PART TW0 Film Form 2. The Significance of Film Form 3. Narrative as a Formal Style

PART THREE Film Style 4. The Shot: Mise-en-Scene 5. The Shot: Cinematography 6. The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing 7. Sound in the Cinema 8. Summary: Style as a Formal System

PART FOUR Types of Films 9. Film Genres 10. Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films

PART FIVE Critical Analysis of Films 11. Film Criticism: Sample Analyses

PART SIX Film History 12 Film Art and Film History

[edit] References

Bordwell, David. Thompson, Kristin: Film Art