The Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film - Softcover

Prince, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0023968060 ISBN 13: 9780023968068

Publisher: Macmillan USA, 1996

Synopsis

This comprehensive introduction to film focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema focuses globally as both an art and a business.

Using clear, accessible, and jargon-free writing, this is the only introductory film text to examine the elements of film style and the viewer's contribution to the cinema experience. How do viewers interpret the effects filmmakers create? How do filmmakers anticipate, and build on, the likely ways viewers will react to certain kinds of stories and audio-visual designs? The text examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen. This approach helps students understand not only the basic concepts but also how their own reactions and opinions impact the overall film experience, making the course even more meaningful.

About this title

Synopsis:

Designed to give students an introduction to the motion picture medium, this comprehensive book 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. A special feature of the book is the attention given to the ways viewers respond to the elements of film structure.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan USA
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0023968060
• ISBN 13: 9780023968068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 397