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Item type | Location | Call Number | Status | Notes | Date Due |
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Book | AUM Main Library English Collections Hall | 791.43 S579 (Browse Shelf) | Available | inv 2023/0174 |
791.43 I537Introduction to film studies / | 791.43 L373Thinking about movies : | 791.43 M278Film production technique : | 791.43 S579Film studies : | 791.4301 A748Arnheim for film and media studies / | 791.4301 C761Contemporary film theory / |
Includes index.
One mise-en-scene: within the image -- Mise-en-scene: camera movement -- Mise-en-scene: cinematography -- Editing: from shot to shot -- Sound -- Narrative: from scene to scene -- From screenplay to film -- Filmmakers -- Performance -- Genre -- Special effects -- Film and ideology -- Film studies in the era of digital cinema.
"Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, lighting, the use of color and sound, and narrative. His description of mise-en-scene helps readers grasp the significance of montage, which in turn reveals the importance of a director's use of camera movement. Film Studies is designed for courses on film history, film theory, and popular culture. Its straightforward explanations of core critical concepts, practical advice, and technical, visual, and aesthetic aspects anchor the reader's understanding of the formal language and anatomy of film and the techniques of film analysis. The second edition of this best-selling textbook adds two new chapters: "Film and Ideology," which covers how to read a film's political and social content, and other key topics in film theory, and "Film Studies in the Age of Digital Cinema," which explores the central problems of studying film when "film" itself is no longer the medium"--
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