If you love movies, this entertaining, user-friendly manual offers you a selective guide for finding what you like and for discovering films that are new to you, from 1920s French films to classic Westerns. It covers Hollywoods entire hundred-year history and explains film genre and terminology.
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If you love movies, this entertaining, user-friendly manual offers you a selective guide for finding what you like and for discovering films that are new to you, from 1920s French films to classic Westerns. It covers Hollywoods entire hundred-year history and explains film genre and terminology.
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Mark Winokur and Bruce Holsinger teach film studies and English at the University of Colorado. Their credits include books and articles on topics from medieval music to monstrosity in Hollywood science fiction-and they are eager to share their love of film with a mainstream audience.
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Great material to convert a beginner into a filmophile,
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A great introduction to the entire world of film -- not just Hollywood, but a host of world cinemas from European to Latin American to African and Near Eastern. The examples used are well explained and are always pertinent to the points at hand. My favorite chapters were one on film theory (which made obscure concepts accessible to the beginner) and one that used all the concepts introduced in the book to explain the German silent film "Nosferatu." I had just seen the new movie "Shadow of the Vampire," which is based on the making of "Nosferatu"; this book made me understand for the first time what a complex piece of art that early movie is. I highly recommend this book as an affordable intro to film criticism that, while accessible and fun to read, does not talk down to its audience.
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I love this book . . . I've been teaching film for 21 years and this book has been a great introduction to those that have never thought about films critically before. If you have had a film appreciation class or are fond of reading about film this book may be of limited use, but it may be entertaining and useful. I wish this book were still in print. This book introduces the basic concepts of film criticism and theory and history in a non-threatening way. If you read this book, pay attention, and watch the films that are recommended you would be well on your way to being film literate.
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Are you kidding me one star guy?!? I used this book in my American Lit. term paper, and I thought it was fantastic! And I'm a heavy reader! It gave me everything I needed for an easy A, and I enjoyed reading it too.
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While we were researching and writing this book, our friends, colleagues, and skeptical family members asked the same two questions: "Are movies today worse than they were in the golden age of Hollywood?" and, "Are foreign films inherently less commercial and more 'artsy'and therefore of greater qualitythan American movies?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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World War, Filmophile's Lexicon, Short Cuts, United States, Second Take, The Least You Need, The Hundred Languages, Charlie Chaplin, African American, John Ford, Hong Kong, Mostly American, Woody Allen, Citizen Kane, Soviet Union, Third Cinema, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Star Wars, Great Depression, New York, Alfred Hitchcock, Free Cinema, George Lucas, Great Britain New!
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While we were researching and writing this book, our friends, colleagues, and skeptical family members asked the same two questions: "Are movies today worse than they were in the golden age of Hollywood?" and, "Are foreign films inherently less commercial and more 'artsy'and therefore of greater qualitythan American movies?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hallmark film, character placement, feature filmmaker, world cinema, mountain films, repertory system, cinema movement, silent era, poetic realism, contemporary directors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Filmophile's Lexicon, Short Cuts, United States, Second Take, The Least You Need, The Hundred Languages, Charlie Chaplin, African American, John Ford, Hong Kong, Mostly American, Woody Allen, Citizen Kane, Soviet Union, Third Cinema, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Star Wars, Great Depression, New York, Alfred Hitchcock, Free Cinema, George Lucas, Great Britain New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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