Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth

• Main Author: Mairata, James (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Production and direction.; Motion pictures-United States.; Motion pictures.; Directing.; American Cinema and TV.; Film Theory.

This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two distinct systems at work in Spielberg's application of style. One is the use of deep space composi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Setting the Scene
• Section I: Origin Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Classical Narration
• Chapter 3: Spielberg as Filmmaker
• Chapter III: Continuity Editing as System
• Section II: Function
• Chapter 4: Deep Space Composition and Staging
• Chapter 5: Space and the Wide Reverse Strategy
• Chapter 6: The Wide Reverse and Extended Variation
• Section III: Effect, Affect and Precedent
• Chapter 7: The Wide Reverse, Cognition and Affect
• Chapter 8: Manifestations of the Wide Reverse in Mainstream Narrative Cinema
• Chapter 9: Conclusion: Style by Stealth. .