How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory
by James Monaco
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James Monaco discusses the elements necessary to understand how a film conveys its meaning, and, more importantly, how the audience can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.Tags
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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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Common Knowledge
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 791.43015
- Canonical LCC
- PN1994.M59
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43015 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions Theory And Instruction Criticism and appreciation
- LCC
- PN1994 .M59 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- 915
- Popularity
- 29,089
- Reviews
- 6
- Rating
- (3.45)
- Languages
- 6 — Czech, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 23
- ASINs
- 7
