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. Movies and Meaning 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 readers understand not only the basic concepts but also how their own reactions and opinions impact the overall film experience.
- ISBN10 0205653081
- ISBN13 9780205653089
- Publish Date 23 April 2009 (first published 8 June 2006)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 April 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 504
- Language English