| Description |
xxii, 583 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Contexts: making, watching, and studying movies -- Introduction to the film experience -- Preparing viewers and views: production, distribution, promotion, and exhibition -- Compositions: film scenes, shots, cuts, and sounds -- Exploring a material world: mise-en-scène -- Seeing through the image: cinematography -- Relating images: editing -- Listening to the cinema: film sound -- Organizational structures: from stories to genres -- Telling stories about time: narrative films -- Representing the real: documentary films -- Experimental screens: avant-garde film, video art, and new media -- Rituals, conventions, archetypes, and formulas: movie genres -- Hollywood and the world -- Conventional film history: evolutions, masterpieces, and periodization -- Global and local: inclusive histories of the movies -- Reactions: reading and writing about film -- Reading about film: critical theories and methods -- Writing a film essay: observations, arguments, research, and analysis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Evaluation.
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| Author |
Barry, Patricia, 1930-
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| LC no. |
2008931065 |
| ISBN |
023022329X |
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9780230223295 |
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0312445857 |
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9780312445850 |
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