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Document Type: | Book |
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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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Abstract:
An invaluable analysis of the director's art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors.
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