Full Description
The Film Experience offers a comprehensive introduction to the art, language, industry, culture, and experience of the movies —with new digital tools to bring that experience to life and help students master course material. The text highlights how formal elements like cinematography, editing, and sound can be analyzed and interpreted within the context of a film as a whole. With superior tools for reading and writing about film, as well as unparalleled coverage of diversity, inclusion, and non-mainstream filmmaking traditions. The most robust introduction to film on the market, the Sixth Edition emphasizes film technology through expanded coverage of animation and a new Technology in Action feature, which puts the evolving technology of film in historical context. The Film Experience is also now available with LaunchPad, Macmillan's customizable online course space, which includes the full e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, a rich array of video activities aligned with the text, and more.
Contents
PART I: CULTURAL CONTEXTS: MAKING, WATCHING, AND STUDYING MOVIES.- Introduction: Studying Film: Culture, Practice, Experience.- Encountering Film: From Preproduction to Exhibition.- PART II: FORMAL COMPOSITIONS: FILM SCENES, SHOTS, CUTS, AND SOUNDS.- Exploring a Material World: Mise-en-Scène.- Framing What We See: Cinematography.- Relating Images: Film Editing.- Listening to the Cinema: Film Sound.- PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES: FROM STORIES TO GENRES.- Telling Stories: Narrative Films.- Representing the Real: Documentary Films.- Challenging Form: Experimental Film and New Media.- Rituals, Conventions, Archetypes, and Formulas: Movie Genres.- PART IV: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES: HISTORIES, METHODS, WRITING.- History and Historiography: Hollywood and Beyond.- Reading about Film: Critical Theories and Methods.- Writing about Film: Observations, Arguments Research, and Analysis.
