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How to read a film : movies, media, and beyond : art, technology, language, history, theory /

James Monaco discusses the elements necessary to understand how a film conveys its meaning, and, more importantly, how the audience can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monaco, James
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Edition:4th ed., completely rev. and expanded.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Film as an art
  • Technology : image and sound
  • The language of film : signs and syntax
  • The shape of film history
  • Film theory : form and function
  • Media : in the middle of things
  • Multimedia : the digital revolution
  • Film and media : a chronology
  • Reading about film and media : a select library.