A short guide to writing about film / Timothy Corrigan with Graham Corrigan.

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 progre...

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Main Author: Corrigan, Timothy, 1951- (auteur.)
Other Authors: Corrigan, Graham (auteur.)
Language:English
Published: Boston : Pearson, [2015]
Edition:Ninth edition.
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Physical Description:xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 1. 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 -- 2. Beginning 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 -- 3. Film terms and topics for film analysis and writing : Themes -- Film and the other arts : Narrative ; Characters ; Point of view ; Comparative essays and adaptation -- Mise-en-scène and realism : Realism ; Elements of mise-en-scène -- Composition and the image : The shot ; The edited image -- Sound -- Animation, 3D, and new media -- Six approaches to writing about film : Film history -- National cinemas -- Genres -- Auteurs -- Kinds of formalism -- Ideology-- Style and structure in writing : The right words : Concrete language ; Denotation and connotation ; Tone ; Repetitions and clichés -- Effective sentences : Economy ; Varied sentence structures -- Coherent paragraphs -- Introductory paragraphs -- Concluding paragraphs -- Revisions and proofreading -- Checklist for writing an effective essay -- Researching the movies : How to begin research -- The materials of research : Primary sources : 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 -- Manuscript form : Manuscript copy -- Last-minute corrections -- Quotations -- Acknowledging sources : Common knowledge -- Documenting sources : Notes for documentation ; Works cited ; Notes supplying additional commentary -- Common conventions of usage : Names ; Titles ; Foreign words and quotation marks ; Bias-free language ; Spelling -- Last words -- Glossary of film terms. 
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