A short guide to writing about film
By: Timothy Corrigan.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: The short guide series
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780321011107
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Film criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface		xiii; title: Note on the Third Edition		xiv; title: 1 Writing about the Movies; title: 1	(15); title: Why Write about the Movies?; title: 1	(5); title: Your Audience and the Aims of Film Criticism; title: 6	(6); title: The Movie Review; title: 7	(2); title: The Theoretical Essay; title: 9	(1); title: The Critical Essay; title: 10	(2); title: Opinion and Evaluation; title: 12	(4); title: 2 Preparing to Watch and Preparing to Write; title: 16	(18); title: Subject Matter and Meaning; title: 20	(1); title: Silent Dialogue: Talking Back to the Movies; title: 21	(3); title: Taking Notes; title: 24	(6); title: Visual Memory and Reflection; title: 30	(4); title: 3 Film Terms and Topics; title: 34	(44); title: Themes; title: 35	(2); title: Film and the Other Arts; title: 37	(8); title: Narrative; title: 37	(4); title: Characters; title: 41	(2); title: Point of View; title: 43	(2); title: Mise-en-Scene and Realism; title: 45	(9); title: Realism; title: 45	(3); title: Elements of the Mise-en-Scene; title: 48	(6); title: Composition and the Image; title: 54	(15); title: The Shot; title: 55	(7); title: The Edited Image; title: 62	(7); title: Sound; title: 69	(4); title: Sample Essay; title: 73	(5); title: 4 Six Approaches to Writing about Film; title: 78	(28); title: Film History; title: 79	(2); title: National Cinemas; title: 81	(1); title: Genres; title: 82	(2); title: Auteurs; title: 84	(2); title: Kinds of Formalism; title: 86	(1); title: Ideology; title: 87	(3); title: Sample Essays; title: 90	(16); title: 5 Style and Structure in Writing; title: 106	(19); title: The Right Words; title: 109	(3); title: Concrete Language; title: 109	(1); title: Denotation and Connotation; title: 109	(1); title: Strong Verbs; title: 110	(1); title: Tone; title: 110	(1); title: Repetitions and Cliches; title: 111	(1); title: Effective Sentences; title: 112	(3); title: Economy; title: 112	(1); title: Varied Sentence Structures; title: 113	(2); title: Coherent Paragraphs; title: 115	(3); title: Introductory Paragraphs; title: 118	(2); title: Concluding Paragraphs; title: 120	(2); title: Grammar, Punctuation, and Proofreading; title: 122	(1); title: Checklist for Writing an Effective Essay; title: 122	(3); title: 6 Researching the Movies; title: 125	(26); title: How to Begin Research; title: 128	(2); title: The Materials of Research; title: 130	(8); title: Primary Sources; title: 130	(2); title: Video; title: 130	(1); title: Scripts; title: 131	(1); title: Secondary Sources: Books, the Internet, Indexes, and Journals; title: 132	(6); title: Taking Notes on Secondary Sources; title: 138	(1); title: Writing the Paper; title: 139	(2); title: Sample Essays; title: 141	(10); title: 7 Manuscript Form; title: 151	(18); title: Manuscript Copy; title: 151	(2); title: Last-Minute Corrections; title: 153	(1); title: Quotations; title: 154	(2); title: Acknowledging Sources; title: 156	(3); title: Common Knowledge; title: 159	(1); title: Documenting Sources; title: 159	(6); title: Notes for Documentation; title: 160	(2); title: Works Cited; title: 162	(2); title: Notes Supplying Additional Commentary; title: 164	(1); title: Common Conventions of Usage; title: 165	(2); title: Names; title: 165	(1); title: Titles; title: 165	(1); title: Foreign Words and Quotation Marks; title: 166	(1); title: Sexist Language; title: 167	(1); title: Spelling; title: 167	(1); title: Last Words; title: 167	(2); title: Appendix: Symbols Commonly Used in Marking Papers		169	(2); title: Glossary		171	(2); title: Works Cited		173	(2); title: Credits		175	(2); title: Index		177