How Movies Work
"Covers all aspects of the film medium in a highly readable,  informative, and scholarly fashion."  --George L . George, American   Cinematographer"The stylistic and intellectual energy of this book are  astonishing. . .  . It maintains for 557 large-format pages a contagious enthusiasm for  the art:  for its structural strategies, its ideological power, its emotional  effects, its  endless ingenuity, its beauty and its mysterious grace."  --Ernest  Callenbach,  Film Quarterly