Language and Cinema
Title | Language and Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Metz |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2011-11-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110816040 |
Film Language
Title | Film Language PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Metz |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780226521305 |
A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cinéma: langue ou langage?'"—Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement "Modern film theory begins with Metz."—Constance Penley, coeditor of Camera Obscura "Any consideration of semiology in relation to the particular field signifying practice of film passes inevitably through a reference to the work of Christian Metz. . . . The first book to be written in this field, [Film Language] is important not merely because of this primacy but also because of the issues it raises . . . issues that have become crucial to the contemporary argument."—Stephen Heath, Screen
Cinema and Language Loss
Title | Cinema and Language Loss PDF eBook |
Author | Tijana Mamula |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0415807182 |
Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical implications. In tracing the encounter between cinema and language loss across a wide range of films - from Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard to Chantal Akerman's News from Home to Michael Haneke's Caché - Mamula reevaluates the role of displacement in postwar Western film and makes an original contribution to film theory and philosophy based on a reconsideration of the place of language in our experience and understanding of cinema.
Grammar of the Film Language
Title | Grammar of the Film Language PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Arijon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
A unique guide to the visual narrative techniques that form the "language" of filmmaking. This language is basic to the very positioning and moving of players and cameras, as well as the sequencing and pacing of images. It does not date as new technologies alter the means of capturing images on film and tape. The guidelines offered here will inform almost every choice that the director, the cinematographer, and the editor will make. Through lucid text and more than 1,500 illustrations, Arijon presents visual narrative formulas that will enlighten anyone involved in the motion picture and television industry (including producers, writers, and animators).--From publisher description.
Fitzgerald and the Influence of Film
Title | Fitzgerald and the Influence of Film PDF eBook |
Author | Gautam Kundu |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2007-10-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0786431342 |
This work explores the many ways in which the developing film industry of the early twentieth century influenced the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing specifically on his novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and the incomplete The Last Tycoon. The Beautiful and the Damned is also discussed briefly. Early chapters examine Fitzgerald's literary adaptation of visual film techniques (pans, freeze frames, slow motion) and aural cinematic concepts (sound effects, diegetic sound) within his most popular novels. The final chapter summarizes the effect such techniques had in augmenting and defining Fitzgerald's unique literary style.
Approaches to semiotics
Title | Approaches to semiotics PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Albert Sebeok |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2015-05-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3111349020 |
The Language of Film
Title | The Language of Film PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Edgar |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2015-08-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1472575253 |
An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen. Packed with examples from classic and contemporary cinema, The Language of Film reveals the essential building blocks of film and explains how the screen communicates meaning to its audience. You will learn about fundamental theories and concepts, including film semiotics, narrative structures, ideology, and genre, as well as how elements such as shot size, camera movement, editing technique, and color come together to create the cinematic image. With insightful case studies and discussion questions, dozens of practical tips and exercises, and a new chapter on film sound, this new edition of The Language of Film is a must-have guide for aspiring filmmakers.