TY - BOOK AU - Lacey,Nick TI - Introduction to film SN - 1403916268 (hardback) PY - 2005/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Cinematography KW - Motion pictures N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-328) and index; Film language --; Introduction to mise en scene --; Production design: sets, props and costumes --; Lighting --; Performance --; Sound (and music) --; Framing: position; depth of field; aspect ratio; height and angle (but not movement) --; Camera movement --; Editing --; Film stars as texts --; Film genre and narrative --; Defining genre --; The repertoire of elements --; Generic evolution --; Approaches to genre --; Twelve uses of genre --; Genre and audiences --; Introduction to narrative --; Todorov and Propp --; Story and plot --; Roland Barthes' narrative codes --; Other approaches --; Postmodern narratives --; Film as industry --; The beginning of cinema --; Hollywood-the formation of the major studios --; Hollywood and censorship --; Hollywood-the coming of sound --; Hollywood decline: the Paramount decrees and the baby boom --; New Hollywood? The early 1970s --; Package Hollywood --; Hollywood: conglomeration to media corporation --; The importance of Jaws --; Hollywood and the high concept --; The independent sector in North America --; The arthouse sector --; Selling cinema --; Genre and industry --; How new is contemporary Hollywood? --; Stars --; The publicity circus --; The DVD revolution --; Film festivals --; Conclusion: the shadow of Hollywood --; Film and theory --; Film and realism --; The auteur theory --; Structuralism and auteurism --; Screen theory - ideology --; Screen theory - psychoanalysis --; Screen theory - feminist analysis --; Spectatorship --; Third cinema and post-colonialism --; Postmodernism and poststructuralism --; Audience pleasures ER -