Film Art: An Introduction ISE

14. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-265-83773-0
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 273 mm, Gewicht: 1174 g

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their understanding of any film, in any genre. In-depth examples deepen students' appreciation for how creative choices by filmmakers affect what viewers experience and how they respond. Film Art is generously illustrated with more than 1,000 frame enlargements taken directly from completed films, providing concrete illustrations of key concepts, including the latest on digital film-making and the artistic and commercial implications of streaming. McGraw Hill's Connect® program includes invaluable tutorials featuring canonic film clips from the Criterion Collection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bordwell, David

Thompson, Kristin

Smith, Jeff

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About The AuthorsPrefacePART ONE • Film Art and Filmmaking1. Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and BusinessPART TWO • Film Form2. The Significance of Film Form3. Narrative FormPART THREE • Film Style4. The Shot: Mise-en-Scene5. The Shot: Cinematography6. The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing7. Sound in the Cinema8. Summary: Style and Film FormPART FOUR • Types of Films9. Film Genres10. Documentary, Experimental, and Animated FilmsPART FIVE • Critical Analysis of Films11. Film Criticism: Sample AnalysesPART SIX • Film Art and Film History12. Historical Changes in Film Art: Conventions and Choices, Tradition and TrendsGlossaryIndexOptional Chapters (available through Create and Connect's ebook)• Film Adaptations (supported by SmartBook)• Writing a Critical Analysis of a Film• Additional Resources for "Film As Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business"

Über Autor(innen)

Thompson, Kristin
Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where she earned her Ph.D. Her books include Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible (1981), Exporting Entertainment: America’s Place in World Film Markets 1901–1934 (1985), Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (1988), Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (1999), Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (2005), and The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (2007).

Smith, Jeff
Jeff Smith is a Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of two books: The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular FilmMusic (1998) and Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds (2014). He has also published several articles and book chapters on the role of sound and music in American cinema. He is currently at work on a book that traces development of the classical Hollywood film score during the 1930s that examines how studios allocated musical resources to films based on their position within the hierarchy of prestige pictures, programmers, and “B” films.

Bordwell, David
David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. He has also held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress. His books include Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging(University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (University of California Press, 2006), The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He has also written books on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergei Eisenstein, digital cinema, and Hong Kong film.