TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bordwell,David Jay
AU  - Staiger,Janet
AU  - Thompson,Kristin
TI  - The Classical Hollywood Cinema: film style & mode of production to 1960 
SN  - 9780231060554
AV  - PN 1993.5 B729c 1985
U1  - 791.430973 
PY  - 1985///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Cine
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Industria cinematográfica
KW  - Estética
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-491) and index; pt. 1. The classical Hollywood style, 1917-60 / David Bordwell. An excessively obvious cinema. Story causality and motivation. Classical narration. Time in the classical film. Space in the classical film. Shot and scene. The bounds of difference -- pt. 2. The Hollywood mode of production to 1930 / Janet Staiger. The Hollywood mode of production: its conditions of existence. Standardization and differentiation: the reinforcement and dispersion of Hollywood's practices. The director system: management in the first years. The director-unit system: management of multiple-unit companies after 1909. The central producer system: centralized management after 1914. The division and order of production: the subdivision of work from the first years through the 1920s -- pt. 3. The formulation of the classical style, 1909-28 / Kristin Thompson. From primitive to classical. The formulation of the classical narrative. The continuity system. Classical narrative space and the spectator's attention. The stability of the classical approach after 1917 -- pt. 4. Film style and technology to 1930. Technology, style and mode of production / David Bordwell and Janet Staiger. Initial standardization of the basic technology / Kristin Thompson. Major technological changes of the 1920s / Kristin Thompson. The Mazda tests of 1928 / David Bordwell. The introduction of sound / David Bordwell -- pt. 5. The Hollywood mode of production, 1930-60 / Janet Staiger. The labor-force, financing and the mode of production. The producer-unit system: management by specialization after 1931. The package-unit system: unit management after 1955 -- pt. 6. Film style and technology, 1930-60 / David Bordwell. Deep-focus cinematography. Technicolor. Widescreen processes and stereophonic sound -- pt. 7. Historical implications of the classical Hollywood cinema / David Bordwell and Janet Staiger. Since 1960: the persistence of a mode of film practice. Alternative modes of film practice
N2  - An overview of American studio filmmaking that examines its distinct mode of film practice, in both production and style, from 1917 through 1960
ER  -