Film Style and Technology: History and AnalysisThe first and only history of motion picture style. The relation of film style to film technology. New methods for the formal analysis of films. A practical approach to film theory. The application of all this to the analysis and evaluation of the films of Max Ophuls. A complete rewrite of the first twenty-five years of film history. |
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INTRODUCTION page | 1 |
OLD FILM THEORY NEW FILM THEORY | 4 |
THE INTERPREATION OF FILMS | 15 |
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action actors American films angle aperture arc floodlights Average Shot Length background backlight BCU CU MCU Bell & Howell black and white camera movement cameramen cinema CinemaScope Close closer shots colour continued D.W. Griffith decade depth of field direction directors dissolves effect European films example exterior fairly feature films film-makers focal length focus front Hollywood interior scenes intertitles jump cuts Kodak large number lens diffusion lenses Long Shot long takes mask Max Ophuls MCU MS MLS Méliès microphones MLS LS VLS montage sequence moving Moviola narrative negative number of films number of shots Ophuls optical printer ordinary Panavision panning particularly Pathé period photography position prints produced recording reverse-angle cuts Scale of Shot screen shooting side silent films sound films sound track speed stage standard studio style Technicolor technique tracking shots trick films usual Vitagraph wide-angle lens zoom