If poetry is what you can't translate, as Robert Frost once suggested, then "art" is what you can't define.
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James Monaco discusses the elements necessary to understand how a film conveys its meaning, and, more importantly, how the audience can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.
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How to read a film: movies, media, and beyond : art, technology, language, history, theory
2009, Oxford University Press
in English
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How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory
November 15, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
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- Thirtieth Anniversary Edition edition
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Table of Contents
Film as an art
Technology : image and sound
The language of film : signs and syntax
The shape of film history
Film theory : form and function
Media : in the middle of things
Multimedia : the digital revolution
Film and media : a chronology
Reading about film and media : a select library.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 678-691) and indexes.
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