| Description |
xiii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Why scenes? -- The rules of enchantment : Aristotle's poetics -- The playground scene of Alfred Hitchcock's The birds (1963) : believing is seeing and constructing subjectivity -- The death of the thief scene in Akira Kurosawa's Seven samurai (1954) : space, time, and efficient exposition -- The dôme café scene in Agnes Varda's Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961) : real time and real life in the service of fiction -- The wall of fame scene in Spike Lee's Do the right thing (1989) : shaping the scene for complexity and payoff -- The roadhouse slaughter scene in Kathryn Bigelow's Near dark (1987) : invigorating genre through subversion and making the familiar strange again -- Why bother? -- Taylor Swift's music video for "Shake it off" (2014) : micro behaviors, macro humility, and moving toward real inclusion |
| Summary |
"Bringing together an understanding of cinematic technique and creative choices, this book explores how directors make the technical choices to tell a story in the best and most effective way. Analysing examples from films throughout, it demonstrates how to practice analysis and application to take your storytelling to the next level through creative choices. This book provides a model to bridge the gap between theory and practice by analyzing famous scenes and breaking them down not solely for critical value and within historical context, but primarily for practical value and application. Author Hong illustrates how an understanding of dramatic storytelling and the dramatic context behind scenes allows filmmakers to produce impactful and powerful stories. Foregrounding reading film and media to allow you to engage with films in a critical and perceptive way, this book will help you make films to connect with your audience. Through looking at complete scenes as the primary unit of drama, it teaches how to analyze story movement across a scene to build better stories, pulling practical lessons from these famous moments in cinema to enable better work across pre-production, on set, and during post-production. Serving as a guide through a single semester-long class focused on direction and production, this book is aimed at advanced students and aspiring filmmakers. It is essential reading for filmmakers wishing to build on their creative and technical skills and enrich their storytelling"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Production and direction
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Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc
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Motion picture plays -- History and criticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| LC no. |
2021057907 |
| ISBN |
9780367608835 (hardback) |
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0367608839 (hardback) |
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9780367608811 (paperback) |
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0367608812 (paperback) |
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(ebook) |
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