The Film Experience: An Introduction - Softcover

Corrigan, Timothy; White, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312445857 ISBN 13: 9780312445850

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins, 2008

Synopsis

The Film Experience is a comprehensive introduction to film that treats students as the avid movie fans they are while surpassing all other texts in helping them understand the art form’s full scope, breadth, and depth. Like other introductory texts, it offers strong coverage of film’s formal elements, but goes further by situating this formal knowledge in the larger cultural contexts that inform the ways that we all view film. The authors’ rich narrative integrates the cultural history of film throughout and demonstrates how the elements, practices, economics, and history of the medium contribute to a film’s many possible meanings. The outstanding art program — now in full color — visually reinforces all the key concepts and techniques discussed in the text.

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Review:

'Rather than the often dry or unwelcoming books on the history of cinema which occasionally appear to daunt the budding film scholar, this book recognises that not everyone goes to watch French arthouse films in darkened cinemas with just a handful of others...With chapters covering editing, sound, genre, critical theories and how to write a film essay, this is a fantastic starting point for anyone who perhaps wants to take their love of film a step further to take a course on the subject or even become a critic.' - Jonathan Melville, Edinburgh Evening News

Book Description:

Treating readers as avid film fans, this book combines beautiful design and an easy to navigate structure with all the key concepts and theory that students need for successful analysis of film

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0312445857
• ISBN 13: 9780312445850
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 583