Book cover for Movies and Meaning
Description
This comprehensive introduction to the film industry 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. This is the only introductory film text to examine the elements of film styleandthe viewer's contribution to the cinema experience. Includes case studies of prominent films,  Sidebar material extends major topics of discussion and to profiles major directors, Coverage of new technologies and their impact on filmmaking. The contemporary film industry, the major studios, and the interplay between business and aesthetics well as blockbusters, new technologies, the film industry, and current box office trends. Anyone interested in film (movie buffs); anyone who wants to go into the film industry.
Publisher Pearson Education
ISBN10 0205653081
ISBN13 9780205653089
Number of Pages 504
File Size DL-347MB
Shelf Number KC510
Grade Range
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download