| Description |
xiv, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
The short guide series |
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Short guide series.
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| Contents |
1. Writing About the Movies -- Why Write about the Movies? -- Your Audience and the Aims of Film Criticism -- The Screening Report -- The Movie Review -- The Theoretical Essay -- The Critical Essay -- Opinion and Evaluation -- 2. Beginning to Think, Preparing to Watch, and Starting to Write -- Subject Matter and Meaning -- Silent Dialogue: Talking Back to the Movies -- Taking Notes -- Visual Memory and Reflection -- 3. Film Terms and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing -- Themes -- Film and the Other Arts -- Narrative -- Characters -- Point of View -- Comparative Essays -- Mise-en-Scene and Realism -- Realism -- Elements of Mise-en-Scene -- Composition and the Image -- The Shot -- The Edited Image -- Sound -- Sample Essay -- 4. Six Approaches to Writing About Film -- Film History -- National Cinemas -- Genres -- Auteurs -- Kinds of Formalism -- Ideology -- Sample Essays -- 5. Style and Structure in Writing -- The Right Words -- Concrete Language -- Denotation and Connotation -- Tone -- Repetitions and Cliches -- Effective Sentences -- Economy -- Varied Sentence Structures -- Coherent Paragraphs -- Introductory Paragraphs -- Concluding Paragraphs -- Checklist for Writing an Effective Essay -- 6. Researching the Movies -- How to Begin Research -- The Materials of Research -- Video -- Scripts -- Secondary Sources: Books, Indexes, Journals, and Electronic Sources -- Film Research on the Internet -- Taking Notes on Secondary Sources -- Writing the Paper -- Sample Essays -- 7. Manuscript Form -- Manuscript Copy -- Last-Minute Corrections -- Quotations -- Acknowledging Sources -- Common Knowledge -- Documenting Sources -- Notes for Documentation -- Notes Supplying Additional Commentary -- Common Conventions of Usage -- Names -- Titles -- Foreign Words and Quotation Marks -- Sexist Language -- Spelling -- Appendix. Symbols Commonly Used in Marking Papers |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: Longman, 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index |
| Subject |
Film criticism.
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| LC no. |
2005040194 |
| ISBN |
0321412281 (paperback) |
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9780321412287 |
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