Film

Name: Film
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ISBN: 9780192803535

ISBN-10: 0192803530

ISBN-13: 9780192803535

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael Wood

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Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in avant-garde art, that don't imply or quietly slip into narrative. This story elementis important, and is closely connected with the simplest fact about moving pictures: they do move. Even the older meanings of the word 'film' - a membrane, a covering, a veil, an emanation - now seem to have…

Book details

List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



List of illustrations


Publisher's acknowledgements


Before the titles



Moving pictures



Trusting the image



The colour of money


References


Further reading


Around the world in 80 films


Index