Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film - Softcover

Prince, Stephen R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0023968060 ISBN 13: 9780023968068

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0023968060
• ISBN 13: 9780023968068
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 397