Dictionary of Film Terms - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070042160 ISBN 13: 9780070042162

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Synopsis

Dictionary of Film Terms clearly and concisely defines the essential terms of film analysis, appreciation, and production, with a special focus on the aesthetic values of filmmaking. Extensive cross-referencing among individual definitions ensures easy access to specific terms, and a comprehensive topical index relates to larger concepts of film art by grouping them under such wide-ranging categories as editing, cinematography, composition, and lighting.
Dictionary of Film Terms is a valuable compendium of definitions of aesthetic techniques (ambient sound, camera angle, process shot), theoretical concepts (auteur criticism, film acting), styles (Hitchcockian, naturalist, neorealist), and genres (film noir, screwball comedy) that together comprise the language of motion-picture expression. Students of film and weekend movie buffs will find it a useful companion for better understanding the art of film.

About this title

Synopsis:

In this illustrated dictionary, Beaver (emeritus, communication/ film and video studies, U. of Michigan) defines the concepts, genres, styles, and techniques that are part of films' historical development and contemporary cinematic expression and analysis: from "absolute (or abstract)" film" to "zoom shot." Cross- referenced. Indexing is helpfully

About the Author:

Frank Eugene Beaver is a Professor Emeritus of Communication/Film and Video Studies at the University of Michigan.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• ISBN 10: 0070042160
• ISBN 13: 9780070042162
• Binding: Paperback