Film Production Theory

<p><b>Integrates contemporary film theory into the teaching of film production presenting alternatives to the standard Hollywood model of filmmaking.</b></p><p>Most serious film books during the last twenty years have focused on theoretical issues film history or film analyses leaving production to the side. This text however appropriate for film production courses fills that void opening the production process to pertinent argumentative notions and incorporating material from Heidegger Merleau-Ponty and Derrida among others. Although Geuens covers screenwriting lighting staging and framing among other production issues he avoids the strictly vocational or professional approach to film teaching currently applied to most production courses.</p><p>Geuens reevaluates what cinema could be to revive its full powers and attend to the mystery of the creative process. To counter Hollywood's normative machinery he suggests taking back from the professionals important notions they have arrogated for themselves but rarely act upon: artistry passion and engagement.</p>