Film handbook

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.

Introduction -- Film language and aestetics. Renaissance of (digital) film -- Developing mise-en-scene -- Directing the actor -- Cinematography: painting with motion -- Sound underpinning image -- Editing: temporality & structure -- Film theory in practice. Reading the screen -- Spectatorship and audience -- Contemporary cinema -- Eisenstein and Bazin: formalism & realism, two modes of practice -- Genre -- Guerrilla filmmaking: practice as subversion. Experimentation and the short film format -- Working with non-professional actors -- The avant-garde, subtext, & symbolism -- Documentary as resistance -- Persistence of vision. screenwriting: from script to screen / John Brice -- Soundtracks: using music in film / Paul Rutter -- Post film: technology and the digital film -- MERGING AND IMMERGING MEDIA: DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL SPECIALISM. Post-film: production, distribution and consumption in the digital age -- Mapping a career path.