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Chapter 1: Looking at Movies•

The expressive agility of movies• Invisible editing: Cutting action in Juno (2007)• Invisible editing: continuity of screen direction

Chapter 2: Principles of Film Form• Formal expectations and The Searchers (1956)• Parallel editing in Way Down East (1920)• Patterns and Suspense• Breaking Patterns for Dramatic Effect•

Manipulating space in The Gold Rush (1925)

Chapter 3: Types of Movies• One Thing Leads to Another• Causal Minimalism• Experimental Film: Style as Subject• Experimental Film: Image as Shock

Chapter 4: Elements of Narrative•

The Camera as Narrator• Narrators• Plot Points in The Social Network (2010)• Script to Screen• Summary Relationship’

Chapter 6: Cinematography• Zoom Lens• Rack Focus• Camera Angles in M(1931)• Tilt Shot• Tracking Shot• Types of Shots inThe Birds (1963)

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Chapter 7: Acting• Acting and the Close-up

Chapter 8: Editing• Continuity editing in Casablanca (1942), a Classic Hollywood Movie• Discontinuity editing in Breathless (1960)• Match-on-action cut• Graphic Match cut in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)• Point-of-view Editing in The Night of the Hunter (1955)• Iris-in and Iris-out• City of God (2002): Editing in Part 1, “The Preparation”

Chapter 9: Sound• Sound as Meaning• Exploiting the Perceptual and Physical Characteristics of Sound• Nonfaithful Sound• Diegetic Sound in Action• Sound Effects in Raging Bull • The Sound of Silence• Sound that Defines Cinematic Space• Sound That Thwarts Audience Expectations