An Introduction to Film

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Proximity and Depth
Bazin, André. “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema.” In
What Is Cinema?Vol. I. 23–40. Trans. Hugh Gray. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1967.
———. Orson Welles: A Critical View. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
Burch, Noël. Theory of Film Practice.Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1981.
Dubery, Fred, and John Willats. Perspective and Other Drawing
Systems. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983.
Dunning, William V. Changing Images of Pictorial Space: A History
of Spatial Illusion in Painting. Syracuse: Syracuse University
Press, 1991.
Nizhny, Vladmir. Lessons with Eisenstein. Ed. and trans. Ivor
Montagu and Jay Leyda. New York: Da Capo, 1979.
Wright, Lawrence. Perspective in Perspective. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1983.


Camera Movement
Lightman, Herb A. “The Fluid Camera.” American
Cinematographer27, no. 3 (March 1946): 82, 102–103.


Framing and Point of View
Branigan, Edward. Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of
Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film. New York:
Mouton, 1984.


Speed and Length of Shot
Bazin, André. “The Ontology of the Photographic Image.” In What
Is Cinema?Vol. I. 9–16. Trans. Hugh Gray. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1967.
Henderson, Brian. “The Long Take.” In A Critique of Film Theory.
48–61. New York: Dutton, 1980.
Perkins, V. F. “Rope.” In Movie Reader. 35–37. Ed. Ian Alexander
Cameron. New York: Praeger, 1972.


Special Effects
Bizony, Piers. Digital Domain: The Leading Edge of Digital Effects.
New York: Billboard, 2001.
Bukatman, Scott. Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen
in the 20th Century. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,
2003.
Culhane, John. Special Effects in the Movies: How They Do It. New
York: Ballantine, 1981.
Dunn, Linwood G., and George E. Turner, eds. The ASC Treasury
of Visual Effects. Hollywood: American Society of
Cinematographers, 1983.
Finch, Christopher. Special Effects: Creating Movie Magic. New
York: Abbeville, 1984.
Halas, John, and Roger Manvell. The Technique of Film Animation. 4th
ed. New York: Focal Press, 1968.
Hamilton, Jake. Special Effects: In Film and Television. New York:
DK Publishing, 1998.
Harryhausen, Ray. Film Fantasy Scrapbook. 3rd ed. San Diego:
Barnes, 1981.
Herdeg, Walter, and John Halas. Film and TV Graphics: An
International Survey of Film and Television Graphics.Zurich:
Graphis Press, 1967.
McLean, Shilo T. Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual
Effects in Film. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007.


Netzley, Patricia D. Encyclopedia of Movie Special Effects. Phoenix:
Oryx Press, 2000.
Pierson, Michele. Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Pinteau, Pascal. Special Effects: An Oral History. Trans. Laurel
Hirsch. New York: Abrams, 2004.
Rickitt, Richard. Special Effects: The History and Technique. New
York: Billboard, 2007.
Schechter, Harold, and David Everitt. Film Tricks: Special Effects
in the Movies. New York: H. Quist, 1980.
Vaz, Mark Cotta, and Craig Barron. The Invisible Art: The Legends
of Movie Matte Painting. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2002.
Vaz, Mark Cotta, and Patricia Rose Duignan. Industrial Light &
Magic: Into the Digital Realm. New York: Ballantine, 1996.

Chapter 7: Acting
What Is Acting?
Brandes, D. “Roman Polanski on Acting.” Cinema Papersno. 11
(January 1977): 226–229.
Braudy, Leo. “Film Acting: Some Critical Problems and
Proposals.” Quarterly Review of Film Studies1, no. 1 (February
1976): 1–18.
Caine, Michael. Acting in Film: An Actor’s Take on Movie Making.
Rev. exp. ed. New York: NY Applause Theatre Book
Publishers, 1997.
Callow, Simon. Being an Actor. New York: Picador, 2003.
Campbell, Russell, ed. “The Actor.” The Velvet Light Trapno. 7
(Winter 1972/73): 1–60.
Dmytryk, Edward, and Jean Porter Dmytryk. On Screen Acting: An
Introduction to the Art of Acting for the Screen. Boston: Focal
Press, 1984.
Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory[and] The Film
Sense. Ed. and trans. Jay Leyda. New York: Meridian, 1957.
Kuleshov, Lev. Kuleshov on Film: Writings. Ed. and trans. Ronald
Levaco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Naremore, James. Acting in the Cinema. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1988.
Quart, Leonard. “ ‘I Still Love Going to Movies’: An Interview with
Pauline Kael.” Cineaste25, no. 2 (2000): 8–13.
Pudovkin, V. I. Film Technique and Film Acting. Ed. and trans. Ivor
Montagu. Memorial ed. [rev. and enl.]. New York: Grove, 1970.
Ross, Lillian, and Helen Ross. The Player: A Profile of an Art.New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.
Wexman, Virginia Wright, ed. “Special Issue on Film Acting.”
Cinema Journal20, no. 1 (Fall 1980).
Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, ed. Movie Acting, the Film Reader. New
York: Routledge, 2004.
Zucker, Carole, ed. Making Visible the Invisible: An Anthology of
Original Essays on Film Acting. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1990.
———, ed. “Special Issue on Film Acting.” Post Script: Essays in
Film and the Humanities12, no. 2 (Winter 1993).

The Evolution of Screen Acting
Affron, Charles. Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life. New York:
Scribner, 2001.
———. Star Acting: Gish, Garbo, Davis. New York: Dutton, 1977.
Allen, Robert C. “The Role of the Star in Film History [Joan
Crawford].” In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory

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