TY - BOOK AU - Conley,David AU - Davison,Lucy TI - The daily miracle: an introduction to journalism SN - 0195540247 U1 - 070.4 PY - 1997/// CY - Melbourne, Auckland PB - Oxford University Press KW - Journalism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and index; Preface --; I; Film Language --; [On Editing] --; Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram] --; The Dramaturgy of Film Form [The Dialectical Approach to Film Form] --; The Evolution of the Language of Cinema --; Toward a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style --; Some Points in the Semiotics of the Cinema --; Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film --; Semiotics and the Cinema: Metz and Wollen --; The Discourse of Pictures: Iconicity and Film Studies --; The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema --; Against "The System of the Suture" --; [On Suture] --; The Spectator-in-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach --; II; Film and Reality --; Basic Concepts --; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari --; The Ontology of the Photographic Image --; The Myth of Total Cinema --; De Sica: Metteur-en-scene --; The Complete Film --; Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality --; From Metaphors on Vision --; Colonialism, Racism, and Representation: An Introduction --; Recent Developments in Feminist Criticism --; III; The Film Medium: Image and Sound --; Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures --; The Establishment of Physical Existence --; The Close-up --; The Face of Man --; Film and Reality --; The Making of a Film --; The Specificity Thesis --; Projection --; Photograph and Screen --; Audience, Actor, and Star --; Types; Cycles as Genres --; Ideas of Origin --; Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus --; Aural Objects --; Statement on Sound --; The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space --; Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound --; Broadcast TV as Sound and Image --; IV; Film Narrative and the Other Arts --; The Means of the Photoplay --; Theater and Cinema --; Acting: Stage vs. Screen --; Dickens, Griffith and Ourselves [Dickens, Griffith and Film Today] --; What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (and Vice Versa) --; Adaptation --; Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System --; The Cinematic Narrator --; The Concept of Cinematic Excess --; Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'Est --; V; The Film Artist --; Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 --; The Auteur Theory --; The Face of Garbo --; Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon --; The Role of the Star in Film History [Joan Crawford] --; Female Stars of the 1940s --; The Mae West Nobody Knows --; Valentino and Female Spectatorship --; "The Whole Equation of Pictures" --; VI; Film Genres --; Genre: The Conventions of Connection --; A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre --; Film Genre and the Genre Film --; Movie Chronicle: The Westerner --; Ideology, Genre, Auteur --; The Mummy's Pool --; The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory --; Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess --; The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice --; VII; Film: Psychology, Society, and Ideology --; The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction --; Cinema/Ideology/Criticism --; The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema --; Jean-Louis Baudry and "The Apparatus" --; Preface --; Identification, Mirror --; The Passion for Perceiving --; Disavowal, Fetishism --; An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator --; Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema --; Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance --; Index ER -