Short Guide to Writing about Film, A: Corrigan, Timothy: 9780321412287: Book: Reference: eCampus.com

Preface

Writing About the Movies

(17)

Why Write about the Movies?

(5)

Your Audience and the Aims of Film Criticism

(8)

The Screening Report

(1)

The Movie Review

(2)

The Theoretical Essay

(1)

The Critical Essay

(3)

Opinion and Evaluation

(3)

Exercises

(1)

Beginning to Think, Preparing to Watch, and Starting to Write

(18)

Subject Matter and Meaning

(1)

Silent Dialogue: Talking Back to the Movies

(4)

Taking Notes

(3)

Visual Memory and Reflection

(6)

Exercises

(1)

Film Terms and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing

(46)

Themes

(2)

Film and the Other Arts

(9)

Narrative

(4)

Characters

(3)

Point of View

(1)

Comparative Essays

(1)

Mise-en-Scene and Realism

(9)

Realism

(3)

Elements of Mise-en-Scene

(6)

Composition and the Image

(15)

The Shot

(7)

The Edited Image

(7)

Sound

(4)

Sample Essay

(4)

Exercises

(2)

Six Approaches to Writing About Film

(27)

Film History

(2)

National Cinemas

(2)

Genres

(2)

Auteurs

(1)

Kinds of Formalism

(2)

Ideology

(3)

Sample Essays

(13)

Exercises

108

(1)

Style and Structure in Writing

109

(18)

The Right Words

112

(3)

Concrete Language

112

(1)

Denotation and Connotation

112

(1)

Tone

113

(1)

Repetitions and Cliches

114

(1)

Effective Sentences

115

(2)

Economy

115

(1)

Varied Sentence Structures

116

(1)

Coherent Paragraphs

117

(4)

Introductory Paragraphs

121

(2)

Concluding Paragraphs

123

(1)

Checklist for Writing an Effective Essay

124

(2)

Exercises

126

(1)

Researching the Movies

127

(30)

How to Begin Research

130

(2)

The Materials of Research

132

(10)

Primary Sources

133

(1)

Video

133

(1)

Scripts

134

(1)

Secondary Sources: Books, Indexes, Journals, and Electronic Sources

135

(7)

Film Research on the Internet

142

(3)

Taking Notes on Secondary Sources

145

(1)

Writing the Paper

146

(2)

Sample Essays

148

(7)

Exercises

155

(2)

Manuscript Form

157

(18)

Manuscript Copy

157

(1)

Last-Minute Corrections

158

(2)

Quotations

160

(2)

Acknowledging Sources

162

(3)

Common Knowledge

164

(1)

Documenting Sources

165

(6)

Notes for Documentation

165

(2)

Works Cited

167

(3)

Notes Supplying Additional Commentary

170

(1)

Common Conventions of Usage

171

(3)

Names

171

(1)

Titles

172

(1)

Foreign Words and Quotation Marks

172

(1)

Sexist Language

173

(1)

Spelling

173

(1)

Last Words

174

(1)

Appendix: Symbols Commonly Used in Marking Papers

175

(2)

Glossary of Film Terms

177

(6)

Works Cited

183

(2)

Credits

185

(2)

Index

187


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