本书为长销40年的经典电影入门书《认识电影》英文影印4版。自问世以来,《认识电影》已被翻译为十几种语言,并被北京电影学院、北京大学、哈佛大学、MIT、纽约大学等知名院校指定为影视课程教材,深受优选读者和电影行业专业人士认可,被认可为了解电影艺术的入门佳作。
《认识电影》从电影理论的典型视角出发,辅以大量电影片例,简明扼要地评论了电影艺术的方方面面。全书围绕电影制作核心要素组织结构,共分十二章,收录超500幅精美电影剧照和图片,章后附有延伸阅读,书末缀有重要词汇表和影片图例。作者以鞭辟入里的分析、新颖独到的见解和纷繁多样的视觉冲击,呈现给读者一个丰富多姿的电影世界。
全新修订的4版修订增补了近100页内容:一、增添了对CGI、动作捕捉等当下电影前沿制作技术的阐述分析;二、更多对经典电影和好莱坞黄金时代电影的探讨,如《春闺风月》《费城故事》;三、更多对当代电影明星(詹妮null
路易斯·贾内梯(Louis Giannetti),美国有名电影理论家和影评人,俄亥俄州凯斯西储大学荣誉教授。贾内梯先生毕业于爱荷华大学及波士顿大学,20世纪60年代晚期开始讲授18世纪英语文学,后转入电影研究。他的作品雅俗共赏,内容涵盖政论、文学和戏剧等多方面,代表作有《闪回:电影简史》《美国电影大师》《戈达尔及其他:电影形式论文集》等。
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 PHOTOGRAPHY
Realism and Formalism
The Shots
The Angles
Light and Dark
Color
Lenses, Filters, and Stocks
The Digital Revolution
The Cinematographer
Further Reading
Chapter 2 MISE EN SCèNE
Composition and Design
Territorial Space
Proxemic Patterns
Open and Closed Forms
Further Reading
Chapter 3 MOVEMENT
The Moving Camera
Mechanical Distortions of Movement
Further Reading
Chapter 4 EDITING
Continuity
D. W. Griffith and Classical Cutting
Soviet Montage and the Formalist Tradition
André Bazin and the Tradition of Realism
Further Reading
Chapter 5 SOUND
Historical Background
Sound Effects
Music
Musicals
Spoken Language
Further Reading
Chapter 6 ACTING
Stage and Screen Acting
The American Star System
Styles of Acting
Casting
Further Reading
Chapter 7 DRAMATIZATION
Time, Space, and Language
The Director
Settings and Décor
Costumes and Makeup
Further Reading
Chapter 8 STORY
Narratology
The Spectator
The Classical Paradigm
Realistic Narratives
Formalistic Narratives
Nonfictional Narratives
Genre and Myth
Further Reading
Chapter 9 WRITING
The Screenwriter
The Screenplay
North by Northwest:he Screenplay
Figurative Comparisons
Point of View
Literary Adaptations
Further Reading
Chapter 10 IDEOLOGY
The Left-Center-Right Model
Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity
Feminism
Queer Cinema
Tone
Further Reading
Chapter 11 CRITIQUE
Theories of Realism
Formalist Film Theories
The Auteur Theory
Eclectic and Synthesizing Approaches
Structuralism and Semiology
Historiography
Further Reading
Chapter 12 SYNTHESIS: Citizen Kane
Photography
Mise en Scène
Movement
Editing
Sound
Acting
Dramatization
Story
Writing
Ideology
Critique
Further Reading
Glossary
Text Credits
Index