A Short Guide to Writing about Film

by Timothy Corrigan

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2nd

ISBN13:

9780673522993

ISBN10:

0673522997

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/1994

Publisher(s):

Addison-Wesley

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Doubling an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to film terms and the major film theories, enabling them to write more critically. Examples from newer movies provide a fresh list of references for students introduced to film study and writing films. The author presents several approaches to film analysis and writing about film-auteurs, genres, ideology, kinds of formalism, and national cinemas, and introduces students to a range of film terms and film theories. Recent movies are used to fresh examples. Multiple approaches to writing about film as well as theories about film are given. Please enter here.

Preface	p. ix
Writing about the Movies	p. 1
Why Write about Movies?	p. 1
Your Audience and the Aims of Film Criticism	p. 7
The Movie Review	p. 9
The Theoretical Essay	p. 11
The Critical Essay	p. 12
Opinion and Evaluation	p. 15
Exercises	p. 19
Beginning to Think, Preparing to Watch, and Starting to Write	p. 20
Subject Matter and Meaning	p. 25
Silent Dialogue: Talking Back to the Movies	p. 26
Taking Notes	p. 30
Visual Memory and Reflection	p. 36
Exercises	p. 40
Film Terms and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing	p. 41
Themes	p. 42
Film and the Other Arts	p. 45
Narrative	p. 46
Characters	p. 50
Point of View	p. 52
Mise-en-Scene and Realism	p. 55
Realism	p. 55
Elements of Mise-en-Scene	p. 58
Composition and the Image	p. 66
The Shot	p. 66
The Edited Image	p. 74
Sound	p. 83
Sample Essay	p. 88
Exercises	p. 92
Six Approaches to Writing about Film	p. 93
Film History	p. 94
National Cinemas	p. 97
Genres	p. 98
Auteurs	p. 101
Kinds of Formalism	p. 103
Ideology	p. 105
Sample Essays	p. 108
Exercises	p. 121
Style and Structure in Writing	p. 122
The Right Words	p. 125
Concrete Language	p. 125
Denotation and Connotation	p. 126
Tone	p. 127
Repetitions and Cliches	p. 128
Effective Sentences	p. 129
Economy	p. 129
Varied Sentence Structures	p. 130
Coherent Paragraphs	p. 132
Introductory Paragraphs	p. 136
Concluding Paragraphs	p. 138
Checklist for Writing an Effective Essay	p. 140
Exercises	p. 143
Researching the Movies	p. 144
How to Begin Research	p. 148
The Materials of Research	p. 150
Primary Sources	p. 151
Video	p. 151
Scripts	p. 152
Secondary Sources: Books, Indexes, Journals, and Electronic Sources	p. 153
Film Research on the Internet	p. 161
Taking Notes on Secondary Sources	p. 165
Writing the Paper	p. 166
Sample Essays	p. 169
Exercises	p. 178
Manuscript Form	p. 179
Manuscript Copy	p. 179
Last-Minute Corrections	p. 181
Quotations	p. 182
Acknowledging Sources	p. 186
Common Knowledge	p. 189
Documenting Sources	p. 189
Notes for Documentation	p. 190
Works Cited	p. 192
Notes Supplying Additional Commentary	p. 197
Common Conventions of Usage	p. 198
Names	p. 198
Titles	p. 199
Foreign Words and Quotation Marks	p. 200
Sexist Language	p. 200
Spelling	p. 201
Last Words	p. 201
Symbols Commonly Used in Marking Papers	p. 203
Glossary of Film Terms	p. 205
Works Cited	p. 211
Credits	p. 215
Index	p. 217
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