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The Classical Hollywood Cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960 / David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1985.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 506 pages, [128] pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780231060554
  • 0231060556
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430973
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 B729c 1985
Contents:
pt. 1. The classical Hollywood style, 1917-60 / David Bordwell. An excessively obvious cinema. Story causality and motivation. Classical narration. Time in the classical film. Space in the classical film. Shot and scene. The bounds of difference -- pt. 2. The Hollywood mode of production to 1930 / Janet Staiger. The Hollywood mode of production: its conditions of existence. Standardization and differentiation: the reinforcement and dispersion of Hollywood's practices. The director system: management in the first years. The director-unit system: management of multiple-unit companies after 1909. The central producer system: centralized management after 1914. The division and order of production: the subdivision of work from the first years through the 1920s -- pt. 3. The formulation of the classical style, 1909-28 / Kristin Thompson. From primitive to classical. The formulation of the classical narrative. The continuity system. Classical narrative space and the spectator's attention. The stability of the classical approach after 1917 -- pt. 4. Film style and technology to 1930. Technology, style and mode of production / David Bordwell and Janet Staiger. Initial standardization of the basic technology / Kristin Thompson. Major technological changes of the 1920s / Kristin Thompson. The Mazda tests of 1928 / David Bordwell. The introduction of sound / David Bordwell -- pt. 5. The Hollywood mode of production, 1930-60 / Janet Staiger. The labor-force, financing and the mode of production. The producer-unit system: management by specialization after 1931. The package-unit system: unit management after 1955 -- pt. 6. Film style and technology, 1930-60 / David Bordwell. Deep-focus cinematography. Technicolor. Widescreen processes and stereophonic sound -- pt. 7. Historical implications of the classical Hollywood cinema / David Bordwell and Janet Staiger. Since 1960: the persistence of a mode of film practice. Alternative modes of film practice
Summary: An overview of American studio filmmaking that examines its distinct mode of film practice, in both production and style, from 1917 through 1960.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.5 B729c 1985 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000109061
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PN 1993.5 B711h 2009 A history of Italian cinema / PN 1993.5 B711i 1990 Italian cinema : from Neorealism to the present / PN 1993.5 B724f 1982 The films of the seventies / PN 1993.5 B729c 1985 The Classical Hollywood Cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960 / PN 1993.5 B745d 2004 Droit du cinéma / PN 1993.5 B772c 2009 Le classicisme hollywoodien / PN 1993.5 B772h 2006 Hollywood : un réve européen /

Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-491) and index.

pt. 1. The classical Hollywood style, 1917-60 / David Bordwell. An excessively obvious cinema. Story causality and motivation. Classical narration. Time in the classical film. Space in the classical film. Shot and scene. The bounds of difference -- pt. 2. The Hollywood mode of production to 1930 / Janet Staiger. The Hollywood mode of production: its conditions of existence. Standardization and differentiation: the reinforcement and dispersion of Hollywood's practices. The director system: management in the first years. The director-unit system: management of multiple-unit companies after 1909. The central producer system: centralized management after 1914. The division and order of production: the subdivision of work from the first years through the 1920s -- pt. 3. The formulation of the classical style, 1909-28 / Kristin Thompson. From primitive to classical. The formulation of the classical narrative. The continuity system. Classical narrative space and the spectator's attention. The stability of the classical approach after 1917 -- pt. 4. Film style and technology to 1930. Technology, style and mode of production / David Bordwell and Janet Staiger. Initial standardization of the basic technology / Kristin Thompson. Major technological changes of the 1920s / Kristin Thompson. The Mazda tests of 1928 / David Bordwell. The introduction of sound / David Bordwell -- pt. 5. The Hollywood mode of production, 1930-60 / Janet Staiger. The labor-force, financing and the mode of production. The producer-unit system: management by specialization after 1931. The package-unit system: unit management after 1955 -- pt. 6. Film style and technology, 1930-60 / David Bordwell. Deep-focus cinematography. Technicolor. Widescreen processes and stereophonic sound -- pt. 7. Historical implications of the classical Hollywood cinema / David Bordwell and Janet Staiger. Since 1960: the persistence of a mode of film practice. Alternative modes of film practice

An overview of American studio filmmaking that examines its distinct mode of film practice, in both production and style, from 1917 through 1960.

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