How to read a film
Subtitle: movies, media, and beyond : art, technology, language, history, theory
By: James Monaco ; with diagrams by David Lindroth.
Edition: 4th ed., completely rev. and expanded.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 729
ISBN-13: 9780195321050
Subjects: Motion pictures
Description: James Monaco discusses the elements necessary to understand how a film conveys its meaning, and, more importantly, how the audience can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 678-691) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Film as an art; title: Technology : image and sound; title: The language of film : signs and syntax; title: The shape of film history; title: Film theory : form and function; title: Media : in the middle of things; title: Multimedia : the digital revolution; title: Film and media : a chronology; title: Reading about film and media : a select library.