Short Guide to Writing about Film (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
216
Utgivningsdatum
2011-07-07
Upplaga
8
Förlag
Pearson
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
215 x 139 x 6 mm
Vikt
204 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
PUZZLE
ISBN
9780205236398

Short Guide to Writing about Film

av Timothy Corrigan
Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-07-07

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This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film.



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 how an analysis of a film can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.
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Preface  

 

I.  Writing about the Movies  

Why Write about the Movies?  

Your Audience and the Aims of Film Criticism  

 The Screening Report  

 The Movie Review 

 The Theoretical Essay  

 The Critical Essay  

Opinion and Evaluation  

Exercises  

 

2Beginning to Think, Preparing to Watch, and Starting to Write  

Subject Matter and Meaning  

Silent Dialogue: Talking Back to the Movies  

Taking Notes  

Visual Memory and Reflection  

Exercises  

 

3Film Terms and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing 

Themes  

Film and the Other Arts 

 Narrative  

 Characters  

 Point of View  

 Comparative Essays  

Mise-en-Scne and Realism  

 Realism  

 Elements of Mise-en-Scne  

Composition and the Image  

 The Shot

 The Edited Image  

Sound  

Sample Essay  

Exercises  

 

4Six Approaches to Writing about Film  

Film History  

National Cinemas  

Genres  

Auteurs  

Kinds of Formalism  

Ideology  

Sample Essays  

Exercises  

 

5Style and Structure in Writing  

The Right Words  

 Concrete Language  

 Denotation and Connotation  

 Tone  

 Repetitions and Clichs  

Effective Sentences  

 Economy  

 Varied Sentence Structures  

Coherent Paragraphs  

Introductory Paragraphs  

Concluding Paragraphs  

Revisions and Proofreading  

Checklist for Writing an Effective Essay  

Exercises  

 

6Researching the Movies  

How to Begin Research 

The Materials of Research  

 Primary Sources  

 Video, DVDs, and Digital Downloads  

 Scripts  

 Secondary Sources: Books, Indexes, Journals, and Electronic Sources  

Film Research on the Internet  

Taking Notes on Secondary Sources  

Writing the Paper &n...

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