Making Sense of Movies: Filmmaking in the Hollywood Style

by Robert Stanley

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Making Sense of Movies is a film appreciation text that focuses on the Hollywood style of moviemaking to examine the aesthetic, historical, and theoretical aspects of film studies. The text focuses on a limited number of significant movies to provide greater depth of knowledge and understanding, gradually expanding the number of films with each chapter.… (more)

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This is a book I read for a Film History and Appreciation class. Had some interesting theories in it, and I loved the history presented. It highlighted many techniques that I had never really noticed before in films that stand out to me now. (

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Making Sense of Movies is a film appreciation text that focuses on the Hollywood style of moviemaking to examine the aesthetic, historical, and theoretical aspects of film studies. The text focuses on a limited number of significant movies to provide greater depth of knowledge and understanding, gradually expanding the number of films with each chapter.

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