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This CD-ROM, designed specifically for The Art o/Watching Films, provides short film clips that reinforce the key concepts and topics in each chapter. Along with each film clip is commentary that relates the film clip to the ideas discussed in the text. A short quiz accompanies each clip and commentary. Film clips are from such movies as The Graduate, Psycho, Pleasantville, Meet the Parents, Do the Right Thing, Vertigo, and Shakespeare in Love.
This Web site for The Art o/Watching Films includes tools for both instructors and students. For instructors, the Online Learning Center (OLC) offers a new instructor's manual; a test bank; EZ Test Computerized Test Bank; a PowerPoint presentation including outlines for each chapter and discussion questions; and multiple-choice questions for use with the Classroom Performance System. Instructors also have access to all the assets in the Student edition of the OLC, which include a special feature "Writing About Film;" a selected bibliography and list of resource materials; selftesting quizzes for each chapter, including multiple-choice and true-false questions; and study materials for every chapter, including chapter outline, Internet exercises, and Web links.
The Internet addresses listed in the text were accurate at tlle time of publication. The inclusion of a Web site does not indicate an endorsement by the authors or McGraw-Hill, and McGraw-Hill does not guarantee the accuracy of tlle information presented at these sites.
Sound Effects to Tell an Inner Story 267 Distortion of Sound to Suggest Subjective States 268 The "Personality" of Mechanical Sounds 268 Slow-Motion Sound 269 Ironic Juxtaposition of Sound and Image 269 Placing Unusual Emphasis on Sound 269 Using Sound for Texture, T ime, and
Tension 297 Adding Levels of Meaning to the Visual Image 298 Characterization Through Music 298 Triggering Conditioned Responses 301 Traveling Music 302 Providing Important Transitions 302 Setting an Initial Tone 303 Musical Sounds as Part of the Score 304 Music as Interior Monologue 304 Music as a Base for Choreographed Action 304 Covering Possible Weaknesses in the Film 307
Statement 411 The Film as Emotional or Sensual Experience 412 The Film as Repeated Form: The Genre Approach 412 The Film as Political Statement 414 The Film as Gender Statement 415 The Film as Insight to the Mind:
Third-Person Point of View: Challenges 438 First-Person Point of View: Challenges 439 The Problem of Length and Depth 440 Philosophical Reflections 442 Summarizing a Character's Past 444 The Challenge of Summarizing Events 446
Not only is there an art to making films, there is also an art to watching films. We wrote this book to challenge students in introduction to film courses to sharpen their powers of observation, develop the skills and habits of perceptive watching, and discover complex aspects of film art that they might otherwise overlook. We designed the text to complement any film studied; its analytical framework can be applied to films as distinctly different as The Grapes ofU/rath, Cache, Dreamgiris, Batman Begins, Little Miss Sunshine, and Flags of our Fathen.
We are excited to offer this new seventh edition of The Art of VVatching Films in full color. The addition of color photos and movie stills throughout not only adds to the book's attractiveness, but also helps students better understand concepts discussed in such chapters as Color, Cinematography, and Visual Design. In all, more than 450 images with extensive, informative captions illustrate key points in the text.
As in previous editions, we have tried to include as examples a large number of contemporary films that today's students are likely to have seen. We do this with the understanding that students learn better and are more engaged by the subject matter when they start with what they know. However, we also include numerous examples from American film classics, which are discussed in a way that does not assume prior knowledge. Moreover, throughout the text, we examine and include examples from films from other countries, documentaries, and animated films.
In its formal organization and intent, The Art of TVatching Films is as straightforward as possible, with a focus on narrative film. The first chapter offers a rationale for film analysis while providing suggestions for deepening film appreciation from day one of the course. The text then develops a foundation for understanding theme and story (Chapters 2 and 3) and moves on to discuss dramatic
New to this seventh edition of the text are seven boxed features that explore important aspects of film history. "Flashback" features are illustrated by one or more photos and give students a brief historical overview of such topics as the history of film editing (Chapter 6); the use of color in filmmaking (Chapter 7); voice dubbing (Chapter 8); acting in silent films (Chapter 9) and the role of the screenwriter (Chapter 13) and the underrated art of documentary filmmaking (Chapter 15).
A new chapter on Film and Society covers such thought-provoking topics as the treatment of sex, violence, and language; censorship and the MPAA Rating System; the "foreignness" of foreign language and silent films; and social problem films, including documentaries.
This CD-ROM, designed specifically for The A17 of Watching Films, provides short film clips that reinforce the key concepts and topics in each chapter. Along with each film clip is commentary that relates the film clip to the ideas discussed in the text. A short quiz accompanies each clip and commentary. Film clips are from such movies as The Graduate, Psycho, Pleasantville, Meet the Parents, Do the Right Thing, Vertigo, and Shakespeare in Love. The CD-ROM
Chapter 1 3 , Adaptation, treats a major aspect of current filmmaking that is rarely covered in textbooks: the adaptation not only of works of literature, but also television series, computer games, graphic novels, children's books, and even magazine articles, into feature films.
End-of-chapter video exercises offer a hands-on immediacy to the study of film. Assuming that most students have at least limited access to a VCR or DVD player, we have devised video exercises for nine of the chapters in the text.
Questions at the end of every chapter help students apply chapter concepts to the analysis of any film. They increase students' involvement in the film experience, encouraging them to participate actively in an engaging quest rather than respond passively to the surface details.
Chapters 3 through 15 also provide students with exercises for examining a short film or "cinema sampler" (part of a feature film that is virtually self-contained). These exercises permit scrutiny of "complete," unified works rather than just fragmented bits and pieces of a feature-length film. They should be especially helpful to students and teachers who necessarily work within limited time periods.
Many instructors ask students to write about the films they watch-either informally in a journal or formally in an essay to give structure and logic to their own critical responses. In this text's Web site (www.mhhe.comlawf 7). we offer guidelines for writing a film analysis and three sample student essays. The first is a lengthy, complete examination ofJohn Ford's The GTapes ofWmth, showing how a student might approach a paper assigned as a major class project. The second is a shorter, simpler paper focusing on important techniques employed in Martin Scorsese's Taxi DTive1'". Both of these essays illustrate the types of analysis that one might expect students to write by using this text and a video source for multiple viewings. So that students using this book can grasp the interrelationship of the text, film, and finished essay, we have noted in the margins of both papers the pages in The An of Watching Films that helped each student writer. The third student essay is a sharply focused analysis of Scorsese's The Age of Innocence without textual annotations.
This new, all-color seventh edition of The Art of Watching Films exists primarily because readers have embraced its predecessors enthusiastically. I wish to express enormous gratitude to the past and current users of my work and that of Joe Boggs.
In addition, I offer my sincere thanks to my family, friends, colleagues, and students for their ardent encouragement tllroughout the making of this book. Immensely praiseworthy among those who actively supported my efforts are Michael Blaz, Carol L. Briles, Miriam J. Briles, Elizabeth Gill, Sandy S. Ridlington, Jeanine Samuelson, Jane A. Tubergen, Robert J. Whelchel-and, especially, Robert D. Briles, Roberta Tierney, Suzanne K. Van Wagner, and Thomas P. Tierney.
Many valuable kindnesses also came my way from Marcia Adams, Deborah Blaz, Jeanne Braham, Ray Hatton, MalY E. Heltsley, Miles Hession II, J acqueline E. Orsagh, and Robert C. Petersen. And co-workers whose thoughtfulness eased my labor include Timothy Hopp, Donald P.Jones,Joan Karbach,Jeanine Samuelson, Jan Schlegel, Lisa Toner, Katllie Wentworth, and Vicki Frey.
Within McGraw-Hill Higher Education, senior sponsoring editor Chris Freitag, sponsoring editor Gina Boedeker, development editor Nomi Sofer, photo editor Sonia Brown, and copy editor Patricia Ohlenroth were particularly helpful. To senior production editor Brett Coker lowe many thanks for his extremely effective leadership and wise counsel. Most of all, I offer my heartfelt appreciation to senior development editor Nancy Crochiere, whose intelligence, creative wit, and patient professionalism sustained me throughout the progress of our challenging tasks.
The tremendous expense involved in producing motion pictures reminds us that film is both an industry and an art form. Each film is the child of a turbulent marriage between businesspeople and artists. Yet despite an ongoing battle between aesthetic and commercial considerations, film is recognized as a unique and powerful art form on a par with painting, sculpture, music, literature, and drama. A. O. Scott, a film reviewer for The New York Times, has eloquently identified other tensions within our insatiable appetite for going to the movies:
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