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Tables of Contents for On the History of Film Style
Chapter/Section Title
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The Way Movies Look: The Significance of Stylistic History
1
12
Defending and Defining the Seventh Art: The Standard Version of Stylistic History
12
34
A Developing Repertoire: The Basic Story
13
8
Film Culture and the Basic Story
21
6
The Standard Version: Central Assumptions
27
8
Coming to Terms with Sound
35
3
Bardeche, Brasillach, and the Standard Version
38
8
Against the Seventh Art: Andre Bazin and the Dialectical Program
46
37
A New Avant-Garde
47
14
The Evolution of Film Language
61
7
Toward an Impure Cinema
68
7
From Stylistic History to Thematic Criticism
75
8
The Return of Modernism: Noel Burch and the Oppositional Program
83
33
Radicalizing Form
84
11
The Institutional Mode and Its Others
95
7
Living Shadows and Distant Observers
102
14
Prospects for Progress: Recent Research Programs
116
42
Piecemeal History
118
21
Culture, Vision, and the Perpetually New
139
10
Problems and Solutions
149
9
Exceptionally Exact Perceptions: On Staging in Depth
158
115
Ideology and Depth
159
4
Making the Image Intelligible
163
12
Dumb Giants
175
23
Depth, Decoupage, and Camera Movement
198
23
Redefining Mise en Scene
221
16
Expanding the Image and Compressing Depth
237
16
Eclecticism and Archaism
253
20
Notes
273
42
Index
315