Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film

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This comprehensive introduction to the film industry focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. This is the only introductory film text to examine the elements of film style and the viewer's contribution to the cinema experience. Includes case studies of prominent films, Sidebar material extends major topics of discussion and to profiles major directors, Coverage of new technologies and their impact on filmmaking. The contemporary film industry, the major studios, and the interplay between business and aesthetics well as blockbusters, new technologies, the film industry, and current box office trends. Anyone interested in film (movie buffs); anyone who wants to go into the film industry.

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Key Benefit: This comprehensive book focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. By examining all aspects of the filmmaking process, Prince provides readers with an understanding of how and why movies affect us as they do. Readers will finish this book with a wealth of knowledge about the cinema and with greater affection for it. Key Topics: Considers how viewers make sense of screen images and stories, the cinema as a global business, the film as narrative, and what filmmakers do and how they do it. Market: Anyone interested in acquiring an appreciation of how films are made and how a filmmaker's technique contributes to meaning. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.