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" How to read a film : "
James Monaco ; with diagrams by David Lindroth
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BL
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623684
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| Main Entry
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Monaco, James,1942-
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How to read a film : : the world of movies, media, and multimedia : language, history, theory /\ James Monaco ; with diagrams by David Lindroth
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| Edition Statement
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Third edition, completely revised and expanded
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672 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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019513981X
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: 9780195139815
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: 019503869X
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: 9780195038699
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-643) and indexes
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| Contents
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1. Film as an art : The nature of art ; Ways of looking at art ; Film, recording, and the other arts ; The structure of art -- 2. Technology: image and sound : Art and technology ; The lens ; The camera ; The filmstock ; The soundtrack ; Postproduction ; Video and film ; Projection -- 3. The language of film: signs and syntax : Signs ; Syntax -- 4. The shape of film history : Movies/film/cinema ; "Movies": economics ; "Film": politics ; "Cinema": esthetics -- 5. Film theory: form and function : The critic ; The poet and the philosopher: Lindsay and Münsterberg ; Expressionism and realism: Arnheim and Kracauer ; Montage: Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Balázs, and formalism ; Mise en scène: neorealism, Bazin, and Godard ; Film speaks and acts: Metz and contemporary theory -- 6. Media: in the middle of things : Community ; Print and electronic media ; The technology of mechanical and electronic media ; Radio and records ; Television and video -- 7. Multimedia: the digital revolution : The digital revolution ; The myth of multimedia ; The myth of virtual reality ; The myth of cyberspace ; "What is to be done?" -- I. Film and media: a chronology : To 1895: prehistory ; 1896-1915: the birth of film ; 1916-1930: silent film, the births of radio and sound film ; 1931-1945: the great age of Hollywood and radio ; 1946-1960: the growth of television ; 1961-1980: the media world ; 1981-present: the digital world -- II. Reading about film and media : pt. 1. A basic library ; pt. 2. Information
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| Abstract
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Explores the medium of film as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology
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Motion pictures
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Cinéma
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791.43/01/5
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PN1994.M59 2000
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