The classical Hollywood cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960 / David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson.
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TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1988, c1985.Description: xv,506p.,[128]p. of plates : ill., facsims.,ports. ; 25cmISBN: - 9780415003834:
- 0415003830
- 791.430973
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Originally published: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
Includes Bibliography: ( 480-491 p.) and index.
[PART 1] The classical Hollywood style, 1917-60 / David Bordwell.
[PART 2 The Hollywood mode of production to 1930 / J. Staiger] The Hollywood mode of production: its conditions of existence -- Standardization and differentiation: the reinforcement and dispersion of Hollywood's practices -- The director system: management in the first years -- The director-unit system: management of multiple-unit companies after 1909 -- The central producer system: centralized management after 1914 -- The division and order of production: the subdivision of the work from the first years through the 1920s.
[PART 3 The formulation of the classical style, 1909-28 / K. Thompson] From primitive to classical -- The formulation of the classical narrative -- The continuity system -- Classical narrative space and the spectator's attention -- The stability of the classical approach after 1917.
[PART 4 Film style and technology to 1930] Technology, style and mode of production / D. Bordwell & J. Staiger -- Initial standardization of the basic technology / K. Thompson -- Major technological changes of the 1920s / K. Thompson -- The Mazda tests of 1928 / D. Bordwell -- The introduction of sound / D. Bordwell
[PART 5 The Hollywood mode of production, 1930-60 / J. Staiger] The labor-force, financing and the mode of production -- The producer-unit system: management by specialization after 1931 -- The package-unit system: unit management after 1955.
[PART 6 Film style and technology, 1930-60 / D. Bordwell] Deep-focus cinematography -- Technicolor -- Widescreen processes and stereophonic sound.
[PART 7 Historical implications of the classical Hollywood cinema / D. Bordwell & J. Staiger] Since 1960: the persistence of a mode of film practice -- Alternative modes of film practice.
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