Movies and Meaning

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.