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| Author | : Deborah Allison |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2021-06-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Since the days of silent cinema, opening title sequences have provided audiences with far more than just a list of names. Their designers-whether anonymous studio employees or world-renowned artists such as Saul Bass and Maurice Binder-have found countless ways to captivate and entertain us while the credits unfurl. Featuring all the creative devices at the filmmakers' disposal, these introductions serve to whet our appetite for the films ahead while helping to shape our viewing expectations in crucial ways. This anthology brings together 18 years of publications by Deborah Allison, who was one of the first scholars to conduct extensive research into the history of American film title sequences. Topics covered include the main functions of opening title sequences; an historical survey of key design trends in American film titling; aesthetic responses to the advent of widescreen cinema; theme songs and generic iconography in Westerns; novelty title sequences and self-reflexivity; cartoons and caricatures of cast and crew; and retro title sequences. The collection also features a new and exclusive essay about title sequence design in the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Gemma Solana |
| Publisher | : Gingko Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-06-21 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 9781584235378 |
This publication examines how opening sequences in films, classic and contemporary, act as hooks to draw the viewer into the film, showing frame by frame how graphics, type and animation are used to create atmosphere, set tone, and lend impact to movies. From Hitchcock and Godard to Tarantino, Luc Besson, and Tim Burton, this large format coffee table book finally illuminates this critical role designers play in filmmaking and gives credit to those that often go uncredited.
| Author | : Gemma Solana |
| Publisher | : HarperDes |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007-06-12 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780061356889 |
From the scrolling yellow text of George Lucas' epic Star Wars to the witty, wordy quips that first appear in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the opening title sequence is essential for setting the mood of a movie. In this detailed visual guide and DVD, more than 1,000 films, 300 credit sequences, and the work of over 200 designers are showcased and analyzed to illustrate the power of successful film graphics. The Art of the Title Sequence explores this graphic phenomenon from the dawn of cinema to present day, and includes the work of the most well-known artists, including Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro, as well as the work of later prestigious designers like Tibor Kalman and Milton Glaser. The opening credits of some of the world's most legendary films are featured, including titles for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, John Ford's Stagecoach, Woody Allen's Annie Hall, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, and Jean-Luc Goddard's Bande a Part. Screen stills are accompanied by insightful narrative into the various films' title sequences and an accompanying DVD shows the selected opening credits in motion, combining to form a package that will intrigue and educate film students and film makers, graphic designers, and film buffs alike.
| Author | : Yael Braha |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0240814193 |
Captivate your audience and enhance your storytelling with this tutorial based 4-color cookbook, featuring dozens of solutions to your titling needs. Each chapter includes case studies and interviews with the pros, lending cutting insight and lessons learned that will have you creating inspired title sequences in no time. The book features genre-based tutorial sections, with step by step instructions for creating effective horror, comedy, drama, and suspense titling sequences. Tutorials for creating some of the most popular title sequences in blockbuster movies are included (Se7en, The Sopranos, 24, The Matrix). Other tutorials teach you how to effectively use sound and VFX in your titles, and also included is instruction on editing your title sequence. These techniques, as well as chapters on the essentials of typography allow you to apply these lessons to your title sequence regardless of whether it's for TV, the web, or digital signage. Also included is a DVD with sample clips, as well as project files that allow you to refine the techniques you learned in the book. As an added bonus we've included 3 titling chapters from other Focal books, with specific instructions on titling within certain software applications. Cover images provided by MK12, from The Alphabet Conspiracy. Learn more at www.MK12.com
| Author | : Jennifer Bass |
| Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2011-11-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781856697521 |
This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian Pat Kirkham, this is the definitive study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American post-war visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta. His wife and collaborator, Elaine, joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. Together they created an impressive series of award-winning short films, including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates, as well as an equally impressive series of film titles, ranging from Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus in the early 1960s to Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear and Casino in the 1990s. Designed by Jennifer Bass, Saul Bass's daughter and written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham who knew Saul Bass personally, this book is full of images from the Bass archive, providing an in depth account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century.
| Author | : Michael Betancourt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2019-08-13 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0429534302 |
This book explores the question of realism in motion pictures. Specifically, it explores how understanding the role of realism in the history of title sequences in film can illuminate discussions raised by the advent of digital cinema. Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences, Motion Graphics and Cinema fills a critical and theoretical void in the existing literature on motion graphics. Developed from careful analysis of André Bazin, Stanley Cavell, and Giles Deleuze’s approaches to cinematic realism, this analysis uses title sequences to engage the interface between narrative and non-narrative media to consider cinematic realism in depth through highly detailed close readings of the title sequences for Bullitt (1968), Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974), The Number 23 (2007), The Kingdom (2008), Blade Runner: 2049 (2017) and the James Bond films. From this critique, author Michael Betancourt develops a modal approach to cinematic realism where ontology is irrelevant to indexicality. His analysis shows the continuity between historical analogue film and contemporary digital motion pictures by developing a framework for rethinking how realism shapes interpretation.
| Author | : Michael Betancourt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2017-10-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1351329472 |
In his third book on the semiotics of title sequences, Title Sequences as Paratexts, theorist Michael Betancourt offers an analysis of the relationship between the title sequence and its primary text—the narrative whose production the titles credit. Using a wealth of examples drawn from across film history—ranging from White Zombie (1931), Citizen Kane (1940) and Bullitt (1968) to Prince of Darkness (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Sucker Punch (2011) and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)—Betancourt develops an understanding of how the audience interprets title sequences as instances of paranarrative, simultaneously engaging them as both narrative exposition and as credits for the production. This theory of cinematic paratexts, while focused on the title sequence, has application to trailers, commercials, and other media as well.
| Author | : Jan-Christopher Horak |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2014-11-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0813147190 |
Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award–winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920–1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest (1959), and Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch (1955) introduced the idea that opening credits could tell a story, setting the mood for the movie to follow. Bass's stylistic influence can be seen in popular Hollywood franchises from the Pink Panther to James Bond, as well as in more contemporary works such as Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002) and television's Mad Men. The first book to examine the life and work of this fascinating figure, Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design explores the designer's revolutionary career and his lasting impact on the entertainment and advertising industries. Jan-Christopher Horak traces Bass from his humble beginnings as a self-taught artist to his professional peak, when auteur directors like Stanley Kubrick, Robert Aldrich, and Martin Scorsese sought him as a collaborator. He also discusses how Bass incorporated aesthetic concepts borrowed from modern art in his work, presenting them in a new way that made them easily recognizable to the public. This long-overdue book sheds light on the creative process of the undisputed master of film title design—a man whose multidimensional talents and unique ability to blend high art and commercial imperatives profoundly influenced generations of filmmakers, designers, and advertisers.
| Author | : Jonathan Lethem |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2011-04-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307789128 |
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. "A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
| Author | : Vincent LoBrutto |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1991-06-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0313390843 |
Interviews with 21 prominent feature film editors highlight this long-overdue look at the role of film editors, the importance of their work, and the nature of their craft. Organized to provide historical continuity and to trace professional collaborations among the subjects, Selected Takes features editors whose credits include such diverse films as Ben Hur, The French Connection, The Godfather, and E.T. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the artist, background information, a filmography of feature-length works, and personal recollections of specific films, producers, and directors, as well as helpful comments on editing techniques. A glossary of terms commonly used in film editing and pertinent references found in the interviews complement the work. Film students, scholars, and educators, as well as film industry professionals and moviegoers, will find Selected Takes both entertaining and instructive.
