James Monaco
Author of How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory
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How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory (1977) 916 copies, 6 reviews
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- Birthdate
- 1942
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- film historian
film critic
academic - Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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I have read all of the fairly thick How to Read a Film by James Monaco. I don't believe that one can learn to read a film from this volume. I believe that its only merit is to introduce a few buzzwords or important names and to list a few hundred books that one might read to further the cinematic experience. For those buzzwords and the bibliography I have given the work one star instead of half a one.
a contribution to transforming the naive consumer to an active "critic" knowing a bit more why that film or scene worked and the other didn’t
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- Rating
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