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On film-making : an introduction to the craft of the director

Author: Alexander Mackendrick; Paul Cronin; Martin Scorsese
Publisher: New York, NY : Faber and Faberđ, 2012.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 1st ed., paperback edView all editions and formats
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An analysis of the director's art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors. Mackendrick directed classic Ealing comedies plus a Hollywood masterpiece, Sweet Smell of Success. But after retiring from film-making in 1969, he spent nearly 25 years teaching his craft at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Mackendrick produced hundreds of pages of handouts and sketches,  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alexander Mackendrick; Paul Cronin; Martin Scorsese
ISBN: 0571211259 9780571211258
OCLC Number: 951362482
Notes: Foreword / by martin Scorsese: str. IX-XI.
Description: XXXIX, 291 str. : ilustr. ; 23 cm
Contents: Introduction --
Prologue --
pt. 1. Dramatic construction --
The pre-verbal language of cinema --
What is a story? --
Exposition --
Modernist trends --
A technique for having ideas --
Slogans for the screenwriter's wall --
Exercises for the student of dramatic construction --
When not to write a shooting script --
Once upon a time . --
Activity versus action --
Dramatic irony --
William Archer revisited --
Plausibility and willing suspension of disbelief --
Density and subplots in Sweet smell of success --
Cutting dialogue --
The Solomon exercise --
The director and the actor --
pt. 2. Film grammar --
The invisible imaginary ubiquitous winged witness --
How to be meaningless --
Mental geography --
Condensing screen time --
Drawing lesson --
Point of view --
The axis --
Shot-to-shot relationships --
Camera coverage --
Camera movement --
Citizen Kane --
Epilogue.
Responsibility: Alexander Mackendrick ; edited by Paul Cronin ; foreword by Martin Scorsese.
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