Paperback
454 illustrations
480 pages
253 x 203 mm
ISBN 978 1 85669 720 0
$0.00
Published March 2011
Contents
reface
PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO FILM ANALYSIS
1. Introduction
2. An Approach to Film Analysis
3. Writing About Film
PART 2: FILM ANALYSIS
4. Narrative Form
5. Mise en Scène
6. Cinematography
7. Editing
8. Sound
9. Alternatives to Narrative Fiction Film: Documentary and Avant Garde Films
10. Social Context and Film Style
PART 3: CINEMA AND CULTURE
11. Film and Ideology
12. Film Stardom as a Cultural Phenomenon
13. Genre
14. Film Authorship
15. Cinema as Industry: Economics and Technology
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. The book illustrates basic film concepts in context and in depth. It addresses techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, emphasizing thinking and writing critically and effectively.
Parts I and II teach students to recognize how the components of film—narrative, mise en scène, cinematography, editing and sound—work together to produce meaning within an individual film text.
Part III introduces readers to interpretive frameworks that treat cinema as a cultural institution. This section encourages readers to move beyond textual analysis and consider the relationship between film and culture. Readers learn to form sophisticated arguments about film in cultural, historical and economic contexts.
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Maria Pramaggiore is the Director of Women's and Gender Studies at North Carolina State University and has written numerous articles on film as well as gender and women's issues.
Tom Wallis is Director of the Writing Assistance Program at North Carolina State. Both authors have been teaching film studies for many years.
'Pramaggiore and Wallis take readers through the technicalities of thinking and writing about film as crafted image, as entertainment, as cultural document and as art. This is a book that conveys throughout a passionate sense of the possibilities of moving images.'
Yvonne Tasker, Professor of Film Studies, University of East Anglia
'This lucid book is a valuable introduction for film and film studies: not only for understanding formal elements and placing movies in a wider cultural context, but also in guiding college students to write well-argued essays.'
Yomi Braester, University of Washington
'Film: A Critical Introduction has been my choice for courses since it first appeared, and it just gets better. This newly updated edition includes discussion of a range of recent films, from Slumdog Millionaire to Knocked Up, while retaining the sleekness of design and the readability of previous editions. Film maintains the focus on writing and critical thinking that makes this book, for my money, the best introduction in the field.'
James Morrison, Claremont McKenna College
Film: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition)
A perfect starter text for film studies students, focusing on basic concepts and techniques, analysis of film components, and cinema as a cultural institution.
Beautifully illustrated book
14/04/2011
The book provides a rich appreciation of cinema as an art form, but it also reveals how film has had a profound effect on our culture. This book has much to say about many of the films you already know but also about many of the films you ought to know.
by Krin Gabbard, Professor, Stony Brook University
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