Film

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students devel…

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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students devel…

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This new release of Film History is a comprehensive global survey of film and its many genres - from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental - written by three of the discipline's leading scholars. Concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, …

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American Cinema/American Culture introduces the reader to basic issues related to the phenomenon of American cinema. It looks at American film history from the 1890s through today, but it does not always explore this history in a purely chronological way. In fact, it is not (strictly speaking) a his…

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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson and now, Co-Author, Jeff Smith's Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by exampl…

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'Film Art' takes a skills-centered approach supported by examples from various periods and countries, through which the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their understanding of any film. In-depth examples are included throughout and are supplemented by ov…

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Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art: An Introduction …

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