Understanding Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Giannetti, Louis D.

Movies

PRENTICE/HALL

Understanding Movies, Third Canadian Edition (3rd Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Leach, Jim

Social Sciences

Pearson Education Canada

Consolidating major figures and film movements into their decade of greatest influence or prestige, this “no-nonsense” book offers a generously illustrated, concise, and very readable history of fiction movies with an emphasis on American cinema. Eclectic in methodology and written in a plain English style that audiences can relate to, it examines the full scope of traditional film history and criticism, viewing film as both an art and an industry– as it mirrors popular audience values, social ideologies, and historical epochs.  Film discussions include titles such as Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, There's Something About Mary, Face Off, the Lion King, Saving Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, Choosing Amy, The Piano, Menace II Society, Sweet Hereafter, The English Patient, Sense and Sensibility, Shakespeare in live, The Full Monty, The Crying Game, Life is Beautiful, and like Water for Chocolate.  For anyone who enjoys going to, and thinking about, the movies.

Flashback: A brief history of film

Appropriate for courses in Introduction to Film, Film and Drama, and Film and Literature.  Understanding Movies is designed to help Canadian students analyze movies with precision and technical sophistication. Its focus is on formalism-how the forms of the film (e.g., camera work, editing, photography, etc.) create meaning in a film. The second Canadian edition updates each chapter with Canadian films and personalities familiar to Canadian students.

<p>Understanding Movies is a textbook from a college English class in which we studied the history of film as well as what certain camera angles and sequences mean. Heavily illustrated and interesting to browse. I also have a dictionary of film terms listed here also.</p>

Understanding movies

Prentice Hall PTR

<p>The book may be of use in understanding how television and movies communicate, the complex network of langauge systems they employ.</p>

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Understanding Movies

Understanding Movies, Third Canadian Edition (3rd Edition)

Flashback: A brief history of film

Understanding Movies

Understanding movies

Understanding movies