Understanding Movies 14th Edition by Louis Giannetti, ISBN-13: 978-0134492087
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- Publisher: Pearson; 14th edition (January 5, 2017)
- Language: English
- 576 pages
- ISBN-10: 0134492080
- ISBN-13: 978-0134492087
For courses in Introduction to Film.
An engaging, accessible introduction to film.
Understanding Movies provides valuable insight into the language of film and how meaning is conveyed to audiences. Author Louis Giannetti engages students in the fascinating language systems and techniques of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films. Building upon the visually engaging and accessible presentation of previous editions, the Fourteenth Edition adds updated photos, new content on the latest cinematic trends, and coverage of recent films to provide students a new way of looking at films that are familiar to them.
Table of Contents:
Photography
Mise en Scene
Movement
Editing
Sound
Acting
Dramatization
Story
Writing
Ideology
Critique
Synthesis: Citizen Kane
Louis Giannetti is a Professor Emeritus of English and Film at
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He has taught courses in film, literature, writing, drama, and humanities. He has published many articles, both popular and scholarly, on political subjects, literature, and drama. In addition to being a professional film critic for several years, he has written about movies for such scholarly journals as
Literature/Film Quarterly,
The Western Humanities Review, and
Film Criticism. Professor Giannetti is also the author of a book on cinema theory,
Godard and Others: Essays on Film Form, published in both Britain and the Unites States. Giannetti’s other books include
Masters of the American Cinema (Prentice Hall, 1981), a survey of American fiction films from the perspective of eighteen key figures.
Flashback: A Brief History of Film, Sixth Edition (Allyn & Bacon, 2010), written with Scott Eyman, is a history organized by decade outlining the major events, trends, and important filmmakers and their work, with emphasis on the American cinema. Both books are copiously illustrated.
Understanding Movies has been a bestselling text in all its previous editions, widely used in the United States and in such countries as Australia, Britain, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and Japan.
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