The Classical Hollywood Cinema : Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960

ISBN-13: 9780415003834 / Angielski / Inna / 1988 / 652 str.

David Bordwell

Opis

Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s.

Recenzje

`At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we're likely to get in a very long time.' - City Limits

`Persuasively argued, the book is also packed with facts, figures and photographs.' - Financial Times

`An exhaustive study of Hollywood cinema to 1960.' - Times Education Supplement

`A dense, challenging and important book.' - The Observer

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Preface  Part One: The classical Hollywood style, 1917-60  1. An excessively obvious cinema  2. Story causality and motivation  3. Classical narration  4. Time in the classical film  5. Space in the classical film  6. Shot and scene  7. The bounds of difference  Part Two: The Hollywood mode of production to 1930  8. The Hollywood mode of production: its conditions of existence  9. Standardization and differentiation: the reinforcement and dispersion of Hollywood's practices  10. The director system: management in the first years  11. The director-unit system: management of multiple-unit companies after 1909  12. The central producer system: centralized management after 1914  13. The division and order of production: the subdivision of the work from the first years through the 1920s  Part Three: The formulation of the classical style, 1909-28  14. From primitive to classical   15. The formulation of the classical narrative  16. The continuity system  17. Classical narrative space and the spectator's attention  18. The stability of the classical approach after 1917  Part Four: Film style and technology to 1930  19. Technology, style and mode of production  20. Initial standardization of the basic tehnology  21. Major technological changes of the 1920s  22. The Mazda tests of 1928  23. The introduction of sound  Part Five: The Hollywood mode of production, 1930-60  24. The labor-force, financing and the mode of production  25. The producer-unit system: management by specialization after 1931  26. The package-unit system: unit management after 1955  Part Six: Film style and technology, 1930-60  27. Deep-focus cinematography  28. Technicolor  29. Widescreen processes and stereophonic sound  Part Seven: Historical implications of the classical Hollywood cinema  30. Since 1960: the persistence of the mode of film practice  31. Alternative modes of film practice  Envoi  Appendix A: The unbiased sample  Appendix B: A brief synopsis of the structure of the United States film industry, 1896-1960  Appendix C: Principal Structures of the US film industry, 1894-1930  Appendix D: Lighting plots and descriptions  Notes  Select bibliography  Photograph credits  Index

 

 

O autorze

David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson