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by Robert Phillip Kolker
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Ch. 1: Image and Reality

THE "TRUTH" OF THE IMAGE

THE URGE TO REPRESENT REALITY
Perspective and the Pleasures of Tricking the Eye
Photography and Reality
Manipulation of the Image
Reality as Image

FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TO THE CINEMATIC IMAGE
Moving Images

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

Ch. 2: Formal Structures: How Film Tell Their Stories

THE IMAGE, THE WORLD, AND THE BEGINNING OF THE STUDIOS
From Image to Narrative

THE ECONOMICS OF THE IMAGE
The System Develops: Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin
The Growth of Corporate Filmmaking

THE CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD STYLE
Fabricating the Image
The Whole and Its Parts
Making the Parts Invisible
Story, Plot, and Narration

THE SHOT

THE CUT
The Development of Continuity Cutting
Shot/Reverse Shot
Sight Lines

RESISTANCE TO CONVENTION
Eisenstein Montage
Depending on the Shot
Mise-en-scene
The Long Take in Citizen Kane
Other Resisters

MISE-EN-SCÈNE AND POINT OF VIEW

THE NARRATIVE OF THE CLASSICAL STYLE

CONVENTION AND CONSCOUSNESS

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

Ch. 3: The Story Tellers of Film

COLLABORATION AS CREATIVITY

CRAFTSPEOPLE

Production Designer

Cinematographer

Editor

Composer

Screenwriter

Actors

Producer

THE AUTEUR
European Origins
The Birth of the Auteur
The Auteur Theory
Robert Altman
Martin Scorsese
Women Auteurs
Maya Deren
Early American Cinema: Alice Guy, Louis Weber, and Dorothy Arzner
Ida Lupino
Women Filmmakers Today
Julie Dash, Jane Campion, Chantal Ackerman
Auteurism Today

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

Ch. 4: Film as Cultural Practice

CULTURE AS TEXT
Subcultures
Media and Cultures

THEORIES OF CULTURE
The Frankfurt School
The Critique of American Popular Culture
High Culture, Masscult, and Midcult
Benjamin and The Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Aura of Sate Intervention
Mechanical Reproduction Online
The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies
Reception and Negotiation
Judgement and Values
Intertextuality and Postmodernism

CULTURAL CRITICISM APPLIED TO VERTIGO AND DIE HARD
The Cultural-Technological Mix: Film and Television
Screen Size
Bruce Willis, TV, and Movies
The Actor's Persona: Bruce Willis and James Stewart
Vertigo and the Culture of the Fifties
An Age of Anxiety
The Kinsey Reports
The Vulnerable Male in Film
Postmodern Villains
Ethnicity in Die Hard
The Buddy Film
The End of Redemption

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

Ch. 5: The Stories Told by Film

MASTER NARRATIVES AND DOMINANT FICTIONS
Internal Tensions
Closure
Narrative Constraints
Censorship

GENRE
Subgenres
Generic Limits
Genre and Gesture
Generic Origins
Generic Patterns
Genre and Narrative Economy

DOCUMENTARY
Newsreels
Early Masters of the Documentary
Dziga Vertov and Esther Shub
Robert Flaherty
Government Sponsorship
Pare Lorentz
Leni Riefenstahl
John Grierson and the British Documentary Movement
Television Documentary
World War II
Cinéma Vérité

THE GENRES OF FICTION FILMS
Melodrama
Broken Blossoms
Now, Voyager
All That Heaven Allows
The Western
Film Noir
Expressionist Roots of Noir
Citizen Kane
Hard-Boiled Fiction
The Maltese Falcon
Murder, My Sweet, Double Indemnity, Scarlet Street
Noir's Climax
The Wrong Man
Kiss Me Deadly
Touch of Evil
Noir's Rebirth
Genre Resilience
European and Other Cinemas
Italian Neorealism
Bicycle Thieves
Neorealism in America
The French New Wave
Jean-Luc Godard
Michelangelo Antonioni
Yasujiro Ozu
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Influence of Brecht
Visual Pleasure

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

Ch. 6: Other Screens: The Future of the Image

TELEVISION
Commercial Structures
The Television Gaze
The News and the Gaze
Narrative Programming
Soaps
Series
Flow
Televisual Pleasure

FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL
Storage and Distribution

THE THIRD SCREEN
Other Narratives
Computer Games
Hypertext/Hypermedia
Film, Form, and Culture, the CD-ROM
The Computer and the Text
Modernity and the Internet

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

Glossary
Index
CD-ROM Index
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