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Movies on our minds : the evolution of cinematic engagement / James E. Cutting.

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"We used to go to the movies. We used to speak of flicks, even flicking out. We used to stand in line with friends in delicious anticipation to buy tickets for a movie that got a rapturous review. We used to be ushered into blinding darkness within cavernous halls of downtown gilded-age theater...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cutting, James E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Motion picture audiences > Psychology.
Motion pictures > Psychological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Power of Movies and a Method to Study It
  • 2. Popular Movies and Technology
  • 3. Viewing and Lenses
  • 4. Mise-en-Cadre
  • 5. Transitions
  • 6. An Interlude on Shots and Cultural Change
  • 7. Shots and Sound
  • 8. The Most Important Shot in Popular Cinema
  • 9. Continuity, Discontinuity, and Scenes
  • 10. Montages, Sequences, and Syntagmas
  • 11. Stories and Their Parts
  • 12. Narrational Complexity
  • 13. The Web and Flow of Popular Cinema
  • 14. Structure, Engagement, and Evolution.

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