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Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates show more how an analysis of a film can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process -- show lessTags
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Comprehensive and really helped me learn how to critically write for the first time about film for a film class this semester. Highly recommend but wish it wasn't so expensive.
Slim, steeply-priced volume which deals tidily with the subject promised by the title. Clearly intended for a classroom environment, although general readers wanting more methods for thinking about film might be able to extract something from it as well.
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Timothy Corrigan is Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of New German Film and A Cinema without Walls and an editor of Critical Visions in Film Theory.
Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- A Short Guide to Writing about Film
Classifications
- DDC/MDS
- 808.066791 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Rhetoric and anthologies By Type Of Writing Writing non-fiction (by topic) Writing about the arts and leisure
- LCC
- PN1995 .C66 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- Languages
- Chinese, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 24
- ASINs
- 9
