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Minding movies : observations on the art, craft, and business of filmmaking
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Title
Minding movies : observations on the art, craft, and business of filmmaking / David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson.
ISBN
9780226066981 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0226066983 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780226066998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226066991 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The business
World rejects Hollywood blockbusters!?
Live with it! there'll always be sequels. Good thing, too
Superheroes for sale
What won the weekend? or, how to understand box-office figures
Snakes, no; Borat, yes: not all internet publicity is the same
Don't knock the blockbusters
Writing about movies
In critical condition
Love isn't all you need
Do filmmakers deserve the last word?
Crix nix Variety's tics
Film as art
But what kind of art?
This is your brain on movies, maybe
Movies still matter
Storytelling and style
Anatomy of the action picture
Times go by turns
Grandmaster flashback
Originality and origin stories
Good actors spell good acting
By Annie standards
Unsteadicam chronicles
Pausing and chortling: a tribute to Bob Clampett
Films
A behemoth from the dead zone
Cronenberg's violent reversals
The movie looks back at us
Lessons from Babel
Slumdogged by the past
Rat rapture
A welcome basterdization
Into the future
New media and old storytelling
The celestial multiplex
Take my film, please.
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