The most succinct, practical, and affordable introduction to thinking and writing about film.Writing About Movies offers students two books in one: a handy guide to the process of academic writing and a brief but thorough introduction to the basics of film form, film theory, and film analysis. Written by the director of the Warren College Writing Program at University of California, San Diego, and the authors of the leading introductory film studies text, Writing About Movies is the only writing guide a student of film will need.

Writing About Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Barsam, Richard

Monahan, Dave

Gocsik, Karen

Movies

W.W.Norton&Company

Film analysis starts here.
Looking at Movies is the most effective, engaging, and widely adopted introduction to film analysis available. From its very first chapter, Looking at Movies provides students with all the tools they need to become perceptive viewers of film, including the most sophisticated and seamlessly integrated media resources that are rich with comprehensive analysis and assessment tools ever produced for a textbook in this market. Authoritative, accessible, and of superior value, Looking at Movies offers instructors with abundant teachable resources to help students analyze movies critically and effectively.
Writing About Movies offers students two books in one: a handy guide to the process of academic writing and a brief but thorough introduction to the basics of film form, film theory, and film analysis. Written by the director of the Warren College Writing Program at University of California, San Diego, and the authors of the leading introductory film studies text, Writing About Movies is the only writing guide a student of film will need.

Looking at Movies and Writing About Movies

The only writing guide a film student will ever need Two books in one: a handy guide to the process of academic writing and a brief but thorough introduction to the basics of film form, film theory, and film analysis. Clear, accessible, and surprisingly affordable, it’s the only writing guide a student of film will ever need.

This is a preassembled package of Looking at Movies (978-0-393-67469-9) and Writing About Movies (978-0-393-66490-4). Building on students' enthusiasm for movies, these texts are more successful than any other at motivating students to understand, analyze, and write about film.

Looking at Movies, 6e with media access registration card + Writing About Movies, 5e

Writing about World Literature, a new guide created to accompany the Norton Anthology, covers the processes and particulars of writing in the world literature survey course. Starting with the essential question, “What is Academic Writing,” the guide takes students step-by-step through the writing process – from generating ideas to researching to revising. It includes an entire chapter on the different types of writing about world literature – including textual and contextual analyses.

Writing About World Literature: A Guide for Students

Reference

Kirschen, Robert

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

The most succinct, practical, and affordable introduction to thinking and writing about film.Writing About Movies offers students two books in one: a handy guide to the process of academic writing and a brief but thorough introduction to the basics of film form, film theory, and film analysis. Written by the director of the writing program at Dartmouth College and the authors of the leading introductory film-studies text, Writing About Movies is the only writing guide a student of film will need.

A clear, concise guide to the process of writing about literature.Writing About American Literature, the latest addition to Karen Gocsik’s popular “Writing About” series, is an accessible, step-by-step guide to writing about literature, from active reading to final revisions. The only writing guide created with American literature students in mind, this new text understands that active reading is the first step toward producing quality assignments, and sections devoted to reading analytically and interrogating sources provide students with this essential foundation. Tips on reading critically and creatively, generating ideas, narrowing a topic, constructing a thesis, structuring an argument, and revising lead students through the entire arc of the writing process.

Writing About American Literature

Hutchison, Coleman

Words, Language & Grammar

A complete guide for introductory students that demystifies writing about art.Writing About Art walks students through every step of the writing process―from looking critically at art, to researching, to developing a thesis, to revising and polishing a final draft. Questions and examples prompt readers as they study artworks, develop a thesis, structure an argument, and cite research.

Writing About Art

Arts & Photography

Adan, Elizabeth

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

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Writing About Movies

Looking at Movies and Writing About Movies

Writing About Movies

Looking at Movies, 6e with media access registration card + Writing About Movies, 5e

Writing About World Literature: A Guide for Students

Writing About Movies

Writing About American Literature

Writing About Art