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WITH CD-ROM 1.03, Second Edition
by Robert Phillip Kolker
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· INTRODUCTION—Film and Representation

Define—Representation
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Analyze—Buster Keaton: The Forms and Structures of Film
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

1. CONTINUITY EDITING—The Classical Hollywood Style

Define—Over the Shoulder Cutting and the 180-Degree Rule

Analyze:
The Classical Style
Meet John Doe

Continuity Editing
Light Sleeper

Unconventional Cutting
Light Sleeper

Discover:
Intertextuality
Light Sleeper
Pickpocket

2. THE LONG TAKE—Orson Welles and the Construction of Cinematic Space

View—Citizen Kane

Analyze
The Dynamics of Wellesian Space
Citizen Kane
Cinematic Space and the Story of Kane's Childhood
Citizen Kane

Compare
Citizen Kane

3. MONTAGE—Sergei Eisenstein and the Dynamics of Editing

Analyze
Battleship Potemkin
Hammock Sequence
Plate Sequence
Odessa Steps Sequence
The Plow that Broke the Plains

Compare
Battleship Potemkin
The Plow that Broke the Plains

Contrast
Continuity: Light Sleeper
The Long Take: Citizen Kane
Montage: Plow that Broke the Plains

4. Point of View—The Look and the Gaze

Analyze
The Characters Gaze
Vertigo
Play of Glances
Broken Blossoms
Meet John Doe
Complexity of Space
Rear Window

5. Mise-en-scène—Frame, Space, and Story

Define— Mise-en-scène

Analyze
Broken Blossoms
Vertigo
JFK

Discover—The Screen Frame
Citizen Kane
JFK
The Trial

6. Lighting—The Expressive Substance of Film

Define—Lighting Basics

Analyze
Sculpting with Light
Meet John Doe
Nothing Sacred
Detour
Vertigo

Color and Light
Vertigo
Light Sleeper

7. CAMERA—Framing, Placement, and Movement

Analyze
Framing
Broken Blossoms
Camera Placement
Intolerance
Meet John Doe
Vertigo

Camera Movement
Light Sleeper
Meet John Doe

Synthesize
Meet John Doe
Detour

8. SOUND AND MUSIC—Sound and Image

Sound

Music—Analyze
Vertigo
Alexander Nevsky

9. GENRE—Style, Form, and Content

Genre

Film Noir
Detour
T-Men
Raw Deal
He Walked by Night
The Trial

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