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Understanding Movies, 11/E
Louis Giannetti

ISBN-10: 0132336995
ISBN-13: 9780132336994

Publisher: Pearson
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 624 pp
Published: 02/07/2007

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For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film, Introduction to Cinema, and Film Appreciation.

This contemporary, best-selling text is designed to help students analyze movies with precision and technical sophistication.

Designed to help students analyze movies with precision and technical sophistication, Understanding Movies focuses on formalism—how the languages of the film (e.g., camera work, editing, lighting, story, photography, etc.) create meaning. Building on the same principle of organization as previous editions—structuring chapters around the elements of film—the new edition of this best seller offers a lavish use of color, printed on high-quality paper and has been updated to integrate recent films, developments in filmmaking, and personalities in the field.

Features

Four Color Design–This text has been redesigned to better highlight models of modern filmmaking.
- Presents students with a visually inventive design, with full-color photos spread throughout the text.

Market leading Technology Package–Student CD-ROM with video case studies at no additional cost–An updated Companion Website with animations, and video clips from interviews with movie professionals and access to Research Navigator for access to New York Times film reviews.
- Provides students with real world perspectives on film and filmmaking and offers students outside resources, critiques and visualizations.
- The Filmmakers on Film CD-ROM (013048783X) (113 mintues) introduces students to leading industry professionals who share fascinating experiences and offer enlightening insights. The clips are filmed interviews with film professionals, not movies themselves.
  
  Don Murphy-Producing
  
  Ron Cobb-Production Design
  
  John Milius-Directing
  
  Russell Carpenter-Cinematography
  
  Ruth Vitale-Studio Executive
  
  Filmmakers on Film is available when packaged with Understanding Movies, Eleventh Edition at no additional charge. The value pack ISBN is 0-13-234739-3.

Detailed captions accompany most of the hundreds of photos.
- Provides students with a visually appealing text containing publicity photos of superior technical resolution.

In Chapter 1– Compelling section on contemporary special effects and computer generated imagery (CGI), and how this new technology revolutionized filmmaking.
- Supplies students with the most updated information on new developments in film technology.

Material on the classic era of Hollywood studios–Including sections on such famous costume designers as MGM's Adiran and Paramount's Edith Head.

Updated! Contemporary film profiles.
- Gives students the inside scoop on some of today's “hottest” stars.

Wide assortment of ethnically-diverse examples–Including material on the Islamic cinema, especially the important new cinema on Iran, and other new sections on how racism in America affected the careers of such Africa-American artists as Paul Robeson, Hattie McDaniel, and Lena Horne.
- Forms a well-rounded study by exposing students to a broad, varied, and unique collection of films and perspectives.

Final capstone chapter–Concludes text by recapping the main ideas of the previous chapters and applying them to a single movie, Citizen Kane.
- Students can use this chapter as a template or rough model for their own analytical termpapers

New To This Edition

New material on film as an industry--box-office grosses, marketing strategies of such movies as The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11.
Additional information on the avant-garde cinema--e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Blue Velvet.
New information on technology--digital innovations, special effects in such movies as King Kong, Collateral, and Saraband.
More on film history and classic genres, including kung fu films, musicals, action films, women's pictures, and combat films.
Wide diversity of illustrations in visuals, including art films, box-office champions, pop culture icons, gay cinema, Islamic cinema, and new Asian films.
Stronger emphasis on the contemporary cinema, including over 100 new illustrations.

Table of Contents

Preface.

1. PHOTOGRAPHY: Overview.

Realism and Formalism.

The Shots.

The Angles.

Light and Dark.

Color.

Lenses, Filters, and Stocks.

Special Effects.

The Cinematographer.

Further Reading.

3. MOVEMENT: Overview.

Kinetics.

The Moving Camera.

Mechanical Distortions of Movement.

Further Reading.

4. EDITING: Overview.

Continuity.

D.W. Griffith and Classical Cutting.

Soviet Montage and the Formalist Tradition.

Andre Bazin and the Tradition of Realism.

Hitchcock’s North by Northwest:

Storyboard Version.

Further Reading.

5. SOUND: Overview.

Historical Background.

Sound Effects.

Music.

Musicals.

Spoken Language.

Further Reading.

6. ACTING: Overview.

Stage and Screen Acting.

The American Star System.

Styles of Acting. Casting.

Further Reading.

7. DRAMA: Overview.

Time, Space, Language.

The Director.

Settings and Décor.

Costumes and Makeup.

Further Reading.

8. STORY: Overview.

Narration.

The Spectator.

The Classical Paradigm.

Realistic Narratives.

Formalist Narratives.

Nonfiction Narratives.

Genre and Myth.

Further Reading.

9. WRITING. Overview.

The Screenwriter.

The Screenplay.

North by Northwest: Reading Version.

Figurative Comparisons.

Point of View.

Literary Adaptations.

Further Reading.

10. IDEOLOGY: Overview.

The-Left-Center-Right Model.

Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity.

Feminism.

Queer Cinema.

Tone.

Further Reading.

11. CRITIQUE: Overview.

Theories of Realism.

Formalist Film Theories.

The Auteur Theory.

Eclectic and Synthesizing Approaches.

Structuralism and Semiology.

Historiography.

Further Reading.

12. SYNTHESIS: CITIZEN KANE: Overview.

Photography.

Mise en Scène.

Movement.

Editing.

Sound.

Acting.

Drama.

Story.

Writing.

Ideology.

Critique.

Further Reading.

Glossary.

Index.

Courses

Introduction to Film (Literature & Creative Writing)
Introduction to Film (Mass Communication / Public Relations / Film)
Film Appreciation (Literature & Creative Writing)

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Understanding Movies, 12/E
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For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film, Introduction to Cinema, and Film Appreciation.


This Twelfth Edition of Understanding Movies provides valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences through a unique network of language systems and techniques. In a readable, accessible, and sometimes humorous manner, Understanding Movies engages students in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films.

Organized around elements of film, the Twelfth Edition of this market leading text provides students with a new way of looking at films that are familiar to them through contemporary coverage and a visually engaging presentation.

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Understanding Movies, 11/E