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UNINA9910820139803321 |
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Fabe Marilyn |
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Closely watched films : an introduction to the art of narrative film technique / / Marilyn Fabe |
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2004 |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Motion pictures - Evaluation |
Motion pictures - Aesthetics |
Motion pictures |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Beginnings of Film Narrative: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation -- 2 The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin -- 3. Expressionism and Realism in Film Form: F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin's The Adventurer -- 4. The Conversion to Sound and the Classical Hollywood Film: Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday -- 5. Expressive Realism: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane -- 6. Italian Neorealism: Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief -- 7. Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut's The 400 Blows -- 8. Hollywood Auteur: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious -- 9. The European Art Film: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 -- 10. Film and Postmodernism: Woody Allen's Annie Hall -- 11. Political Cinema: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing -- 12. Feminism and Film Form: Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing -- 13. Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative: Mike Figgis's Timecode and James Cameron's Avatar -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch. |
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Ranging from D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to James Cameron's Avatar, and ending with an epilogue on digital media, Closely Watched Films focuses on exemplary works of fourteen film directors whose careers together span the history of the narrative film. Lively and down-to-earth, this concise introduction provides a broad, complete, and yet specific picture of visual narrative techniques that will increase readers' excitement about and knowledge of the possibilities of the film medium. Shot-by-shot analyses of short passages from each film ground theory in concrete examples. Fabe includes original and well-informed discussions of Soviet montage, realism and expressionism in film form, classical and modern sound theory, the classic Hollywood film, Italian neorealism, the French New Wave, auteur theory, modernism and postmodernism in film, political cinema, feminist film theory and practice, and narrative experiments in new digital media. Encompassing the earliest silent films as well as those that exploit the most recent technological innovations, this book gives us the particulars of how film-arguably the most influential of contemporary forms of representation-constitutes our pleasure, influences our thoughts, and informs our daily reality. Updated to include a discussion of 3-D and advanced special effects, this tenth anniversary edition is an essential film studies text for students and professors alike. |
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UNINA9910812752803321 |
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Bielefeld Bert |
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Building contract / / Bert Bielefeld |
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Basel, Switzerland : , : Birkhäuser, , [2018] |
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1 online resource (68 pages) |
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Construction contracts |
Architectural practice |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Types of contracts -- Contractual provisions -- Contract components -- Contracting procedures -- Conclusion -- Appendix |
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Die Grundlage der qualitätsvollen Bauausführung |
Once the design has been completed, the architects prepare the tender documents for the contractors, and provide support during the tender procedure. For the purpose of commissioning various building works it is necessary to set up building contracts which contain standard content as well as very individual provisions. The building contract and its extensive drawings and specifications are the basis for the building work; they must be understood by the supervising architect and implemented to create the building. The complexity and diversity of building contracts is increased by the fact that there is hardly a building contract that does not have to be modified after it has been signed. Basics Building Contract offers the typical structures and explanations, as well as the tools for creating project-specific contracts and understanding the inherent complexity. |
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