Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know by Michael Wiese Productions $24.95
What the industry's most succcessful writers and directors have in common is that they have mastered the cinematic conventions specific to the medium.
Film Art: An Introduction by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages $65.00
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by a wide range of examples from various periods and countries, the authors strive to help students develop a core set of analytical skills...
Understanding Movies (12th Edition) by Allyn & Bacon $105.40
Updated in a new 12th edition , this book is organized around the elements of film and provides readers valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences. This book engages readers in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films. From Slumdog...
The Art of Watching Film with CD-ROM by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages $13.80
This introduction to film appreciation uses contemporary and popular American movies to help students develop critical skills in the analysis and evaluation of film. By suggesting what to look for and how to look for it, the text challenges students to sharpen their powers of observation, establish habits of perceptive watching, and discover complex aspects of film art that will further enhance...
How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory by Oxford University Press, USA $29.95
First published in 1977, this popular book has become the source on film and media. Now, James Monaco offers a revised and rewritten third edition incorporating every major aspect of this dynamic medium right up to the present.Looking at film from many vantage points, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia explores the medium as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and...
Film Art: An Introduction with Tutorial CD-ROM by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages $50.00
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be more classroom friendly by introducing film...
Film Art : An Introduction, TEXT ONLY, 6th Edition, pb, 2001 by McGraw-Hill $10.00
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (Contemporary Film and Television Series) by Barry Keith Grant $27.50
An examination of the developments in the history of documentary fimmmaking.
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary by Indiana Univ Pr $39.95
"Representing Reality" is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice. It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique. The volume poses questions about the relationship of the documentary tradition to power, the body, authority, knowledge, and our experience of history. This...
Understanding Movies by Prentice Hall College Div $92.80
Helps readers understand how the many languages of film work together to create meaning. Louis Giannetti organizes Understanding Movies around the key elements of filmmaking, including cintematography, Mise en Scène, movement, editing, sound, acting, drama, casting, story, screenwriting, ideology, and theory. He synthesizes every element through a complete case study: Citizen Kane. This book's...