This comprehensive introduction to film text 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. Using clear, accessible, and jargon-free writing, this is the only introductory film text to examine the elements of film style and the viewer's contribution to the cinema experience. How do viewers interpret the effects filmmakers create? How do filmmakers anticipate, and build on, the likely ways viewers will react to certain kinds of stories and audio-visual designs? The text examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen. This approach helps students understand not only the basic concepts but also how their own reactions and opinions impact the overall film experience.
- ISBN10 1292041293
- ISBN13 9781292041292
- Publish Date 8 November 2013 (first published 1 November 2013)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Edition 6th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 388
- Language English