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This practical guide addresses how to write effective essays about films. It discusses the various stages in the writing process specific to film studies, such as taking notes, preparing an outline, research, and integrating technical details into analysis. It includes sample essays.
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This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. With numerous student and professional examples along the way, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film becomes more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to film terms and the major film theories to enable them to write more critically. For individuals who want to think and write critically about film.
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Timothy Corrigan is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- PublisherWatson-Guptill Pubns
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0823049558
- ISBN 13 9780823049554
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages190
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A Short Guide to Writing About Film
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