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This comprehensive introduction to film focuses on three topi how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business.
Using clear, accessible, and jargon-free writing, this is the only introductory film text to examine the elements of film style and the viewer's contribution to the cinema experience. How do viewers interpret the effects filmmakers create? How do filmmaker anticipate, and build on, the likely ways viewers will react to certain kinds of stories and audio-visual designs? The text examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds, and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen. This approach helps students understand not only the basic concepts but also how their own reactions and opinions impact the overall film experience.
• Includes a new chapter on Cinema in Multiple Contexts to provide in-depth coverage of the various modes of filmmaking, including animation, documentary, and independent and international film as well as a discussion of diverse filmmakers (i.e. women in film and African American film).
• Updated film examples and case studies throughout the text. explaining terms and concepts by using examples film students know, including Sin City, Fahrenheit 911. The Passion of the Christ, and Capturing the Friedmans.
• Offers expanded coverage of film genres, including science fiction, the war film, and film noir.
• Discusses hand-held camerawork, Steadicam, digital intermediates, the role of sound in contemporary film, and cinema in the DVD era to provide students with up-to-date coverage of new technologies and their impact on filmmaking.
• Provides an updated discussion of blockbusters, the film industry, and current box office trends to provide a more timely view of the business of film.
Using clear, accessible, and jargon-free writing, this is the only introductory film text to examine the elements of film style and the viewer's contribution to the cinema experience. How do viewers interpret the effects filmmakers create? How do filmmaker anticipate, and build on, the likely ways viewers will react to certain kinds of stories and audio-visual designs? The text examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds, and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen. This approach helps students understand not only the basic concepts but also how their own reactions and opinions impact the overall film experience.
• Includes a new chapter on Cinema in Multiple Contexts to provide in-depth coverage of the various modes of filmmaking, including animation, documentary, and independent and international film as well as a discussion of diverse filmmakers (i.e. women in film and African American film).
• Updated film examples and case studies throughout the text. explaining terms and concepts by using examples film students know, including Sin City, Fahrenheit 911. The Passion of the Christ, and Capturing the Friedmans.
• Offers expanded coverage of film genres, including science fiction, the war film, and film noir.
• Discusses hand-held camerawork, Steadicam, digital intermediates, the role of sound in contemporary film, and cinema in the DVD era to provide students with up-to-date coverage of new technologies and their impact on filmmaking.
• Provides an updated discussion of blockbusters, the film industry, and current box office trends to provide a more timely view of the business of film.