num_pages: 504
description: <p>Updated in a new 6<sup>th</sup> edition, <i>Movies and Meaning</i> is a comprehensive introduction to the film industry that focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. It examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen.</p>
language: en
title: Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film, 6th Edition
publisher: Pearson