Film Production Theory, livre ebook

Integrates contemporary film theory into the teaching of film production, presenting alternatives to the standard Hollywood model of filmmaking.

Integrates contemporary film theory into the teaching of film production, presenting alternatives to the standard Hollywood model of filmmaking.

Most serious film books during the last twenty years have focused on theoretical issues, film history, or film analyses, leaving production to the side. This text, however, appropriate for film production courses, fills that void, opening the production process to pertinent, argumentative notions and incorporating material from Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida, among others. Although Geuens covers screenwriting, lighting, staging, and framing, among other production issues, he avoids the strictly vocational or "professional" approach to film teaching currently applied to most production courses.

Geuens reevaluates what cinema could be, to revive its full powers and attend to the mystery of the creative process. To counter Hollywood's normative machinery, he suggests taking back from the professionals important notions they have arrogated for themselves but rarely act upon: artistry, passion, and engagement.

Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Cinema: The State of the Art
Chapter Two
Art/Entertainment
Chapter Three
The Film School
Chapter Four
Writing
Chapter Five
Staging
Chapter Six
Lighting
Chapter Seven
The Frame
Chapter Eight
Sound
Chapter Nine
Editing
Chapter Ten
Envoi
Notes
Index