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A short guide to writing about film / Timothy Corrigan, The University of Pennsylvania, with Graham Corrigan.
Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Ninth editionDescription: xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780321965240 (student's edition)
- 0321965248 (student's edition)
- 9780321965301 (instructor's edition)
- 0321965302 (instructor's edition)
- 9780321996480 (ALC edition)
- 0321996488 (ALC edition)
- PN1995 .C66 2015
Contents:
Summary: 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 -- Provide by publisher.
1. Writing about the movies -- 2. Beginning to think, preparing to watch, and starting to write -- 3. Film terms and topics for film analysis and writing -- 4. Six approaches to writing about film -- 5. Style and structure in writing -- 6. Researching the movies -- 7. Manuscript form.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PN 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5118277 |
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| PN 1994 .P663 2011 Film : a critical introduction / | PN 1994 .S325 2008 The SAGE handbook of film studies / | PN 1994 .S435 2006 Screening world cinema : a screen reader / | PN 1995 A short guide to writing about film / | PN 1995 .A448 2006 American movie critics : an anthology from the silents until now / | PN 1995 .B336 2006 The cinematic mode of production : attention economy and the society of the spectacle / | PN 1995 .B336 2006 The cinematic mode of production : attention economy and the society of the spectacle / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185) and indexes.
1. Writing about the movies -- 2. Beginning to think, preparing to watch, and starting to write -- 3. Film terms and topics for film analysis and writing -- 4. Six approaches to writing about film -- 5. Style and structure in writing -- 6. Researching the movies -- 7. Manuscript form.
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 -- Provide by publisher.
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