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Understanding movies / Louis Giannetti.

By: Publication details: Upper Saddle River, NJ. : Prentice-Hall, 1999.Edition: 8th edDescription: ix, 529 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0136465633
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 GIA
Contents:
Preface. - 1. Photography. - 2. Mise en scene. - 3. Movement. - 4. Editing. - 5. Sound. - 6. Acting. - 7. Drama. - 8. Story. - 9. Writing. - 10. Ideology. - 11. Theory. - 12. Synthesis : citizen Kane. - Glossary. - Index.
Summary: Cineliteracy is long overdue in American education, and not just at the college level. According to The Television and Video Almanac, the average American family watches about seven hours of television per day. That's a lot of time watching moving images. Yet, for the most part, we watch them uncritically, passively, allowing them to wash over us, rarely analyzing how they work on us, how they can shape our values. The following chapters may be of use in understanding how television and movies communicate, and the complex network of language systems they use. I entertain no grand pretense at teaching viewers how to respond to moving images; rather, I am concerned with suggesting some of the reasons people respond as they do. - Preface.
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Preface. - 1. Photography. - 2. Mise en scene. - 3. Movement. - 4. Editing. - 5. Sound. - 6. Acting. - 7. Drama. - 8. Story. - 9. Writing. - 10. Ideology. - 11. Theory. - 12. Synthesis : citizen Kane. - Glossary. - Index.

Cineliteracy is long overdue in American education, and not just at the college level. According to The Television and Video Almanac, the average American family watches about seven hours of television per day. That's a lot of time watching moving images. Yet, for the most part, we watch them uncritically, passively, allowing them to wash over us, rarely analyzing how they work on us, how they can shape our values. The following chapters may be of use in understanding how television and movies communicate, and the complex network of language systems they use. I entertain no grand pretense at teaching viewers how to respond to moving images; rather, I am concerned with suggesting some of the reasons people respond as they do. - Preface.

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