An Introduction to Film

GLOSSARY 541 K key light Also known as main lightor source light. The brightest light falling on a subject. kinesis The aspect o ...

minor character A supporting characterin a movie. Minor characters have fewer traits than major characters, so we know less abou ...

GLOSSARY 543 that keeps the action on a single side of the camera; (2) the camera must shoot consistently on one side of that li ...

production designer A person who works closely with the director, art director, and director of photography, in visualizing the ...

GLOSSARY 545 scene A complete unit of plotaction incorporating one or more shots; the settingof that action. scope The overall r ...

Stanislavsky system A system of acting, developed by Russian theater directorKonstantin Stanislavsky in the late nineteenth cent ...

GLOSSARY 547 video assist camera A tiny device, mounted in the viewing system of the film camera, that enables ascript superviso ...

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FURTHER READING 549 Chapter 1: Looking at Movies Theory and Aesthetics Aitken, Ian. European Film Theory and Cinema: A Critical ...

Wollen, Peter. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema. 3rd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972. Youngblood, Gene. Expanded ...

FURTHER READING 551 Solomon, Stanley J. Beyond Formula: American Film Genres. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Warshow ...

Documentary Films Aitken, Ian. Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York: Routledge, 2006. Aufderheide, Patricia. Documenta ...

FURTHER READING 553 King, Geoff, and Tanya Krzywinska. Science Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace.London: Wallflower, ...

Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Quart, Barbara Koenig. Women Directors: T ...

FURTHER READING 555 Dalle Vacche, Angela. Cinema and Painting: How Art Is Used in Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. ...

Costume, Makeup, and Hairstyle Annas, Alicia. “The Photogenic Formula: Hairstyles and Makeup in Historical Films.” In Hollywood ...

FURTHER READING 557 Toland, Gregg. “How I Broke the Rules in Citizen Kane.” In Focus on Citizen Kane. 73–77. Ed. Ronald Gottesma ...

Proximity and Depth Bazin, André. “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema.” In What Is Cinema?Vol. I. 23–40. Trans. Hugh Gray. ...

FURTHER READING 559 Readings.606–619. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Allen, ...

Wexman, Virginia Wright. “Kinesics and Film Acting: Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falconand The Big Sleep.” Journal of Popular ...