How to read a film :
Monaco, James.
How to read a film : movies, media, and beyond : art, technology, language, history, theory James Monaco ; with diagrams by David Lindroth. - 4th ed., completely rev. and expanded. - New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009. - 729 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 678-691) and indexes.
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.
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.
9780195321050
2009517555
Motion pictures.
PN1994 / .M59 2009
791.430 / MON-H
How to read a film : movies, media, and beyond : art, technology, language, history, theory James Monaco ; with diagrams by David Lindroth. - 4th ed., completely rev. and expanded. - New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009. - 729 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 678-691) and indexes.
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.
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.
9780195321050
2009517555
Motion pictures.
PN1994 / .M59 2009
791.430 / MON-H