Film Experience An Introduction

Name: Film Experience An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780312445850

ISBN-10: 0312445857

ISBN-13: 9780312445850

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White

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The Film Experienceis a comprehensive introduction to film that treats students as the avid movie fans they are while surpassing all other texts in helping them understand the art form's full scope, breadth, and depth. Like other introductory texts, it offers strong coverage of film's formal elements, but goes further by situating this formal knowledge in the larger cultural contexts that inform the ways that we all view film. The authors' rich narrative integrates the cultural history of film throughout and demonstrates how the elements, practices, economics, and history of the medium contribute to a film's many possible meanings. The outstanding art program now in full color visually…

Book details

List price: $86.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 12/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 8.45" wide x 10.89" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English



Preface



Film Contexts: Making, Watching, and Studying Movies



Introduction to the Film Experience



Preparing Viewers and Views: Distribution, Production, Promotion, and Exhibition



Compositions: Film Scenes, Shots, Cuts, and Sounds



Exploring a Material World: Mise-en-Scene



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 Film



Representing Reality: Documentary Films



Experimental Screens: Avant-garde Film, Video Art, and New Media



Rituals, Conventions, Archetypes, and Formulas: Movie Genres



Histories: Hollywood and Beyond



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 Methods and Theories



Writing a Film Essay: Observations, Arguments, Research, and Analysis


Glossary


Index