This comprehensive introduction to film focuses on three topics: 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 filmmakers 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.
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This review is from: Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film (4th Edition) (Paperback)
I had to buy this textbook for my second film class, and maybe it was because I was welcomed into the film world with a lot of depth, but this textbook one certainly did not live up to my expectations. Film books themselves are supposed to be a work of art! Movies and Meaning was stripped of color (95% of it) and the explanations were not as in depth as others I've been exposed to. Color and the meaning of colors/tones/lighting is EXCEPTIONALLY important in film! How are you supposed to visually demonstrate lighting techniques, color saturation or desaturation, or tones without color?
The only thing I did like is the few random pages in the middle of each chapter that they dedicated to a certain director. Overall, I think that if you're trying to learn the basics of film, there are better textbooks out there. My first recommendation: FILM: An Introduction; by Tom Wallis
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This review is from: Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film (5th Edition) (Paperback)
this is a good book.actually I bought this book for the course I have taken in college.but that book includes interesting information.
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This review is from: Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film (4th Edition) (Paperback)
The price for the newest edition was just too much for me, given that it mostly received poor reviews. But I actually LOVE this book. I only spent $8.00 and it was the best money I've spent in a while. The information is basic, but very informative and easy to understand. Each category is filled with examples upon examples of films and each chapter includes a special insert on a specific director. I am disappointed that it is all in black and white, but I love all of the information and insight this book has to offer!
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