Overview

The Film Experience offers a comprehensive introduction to the art, language, industry, culture, and experience of the movies —with new digital tools to bring that experience to life and help students master course material. The text highlights how formal elements like cinematography, editing, and sound can be analyzed and interpreted within the context of a film as a whole. With superior tools for reading and writing about film, as well as unparalleled coverage of diversity, inclusion, and non-mainstream filmmaking traditions. The most robust introduction to film on the market, the Sixth Edition emphasizes film technology through expanded coverage of animation and a new Technology in Action feature, which puts the evolving technology of film in historical context. The Film Experience is also now available with LaunchPad, Macmillan’s customizable online course space, which includes the full e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, a rich array of video activities aligned with the text, and more.

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Author:   Timothy Corrigan ,  Patricia White
Publisher:   Macmillan Learning
Imprint:   Bedford/Saint Martin's
Edition:   6th ed. 2021
ISBN:  

9781319208189

ISBN 10:   1319208185
Publication Date:   06 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I: CULTURAL CONTEXTS: MAKING, WATCHING, AND STUDYING MOVIES.- Introduction: Studying Film: Culture, Practice, Experience.- Encountering Film: From Preproduction to Exhibition.- PART II: FORMAL COMPOSITIONS: FILM SCENES, SHOTS, CUTS, AND SOUNDS.- Exploring a Material World: Mise-en-Scène.- Framing What We See: Cinematography.- Relating Images: Film Editing.- Listening to the Cinema: Film Sound.- PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES: FROM STORIES TO GENRES.- Telling Stories: Narrative Films.- Representing the Real: Documentary Films.- Challenging Form: Experimental Film and New Media.- Rituals, Conventions, Archetypes, and Formulas: Movie Genres.- PART IV: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES: HISTORIES, METHODS, WRITING.- History and Historiography: Hollywood and Beyond.- Reading about Film: Critical Theories and Methods.- Writing about Film: Observations, Arguments Research, and Analysis.

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Timothy Corrigan is a professor emeritus of cinema and media studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published essays in Film Quarterly, Discourse, and Cinema Journal, among other collections. In 2014, he received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Award for Outstanding Pedagogical Achievement. Patricia White is Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is a member of the editorial collective of the feminist film journal Camera Obscura. She serves on the board of the feminist distributor and media organization Women Make Movies and the editorial board of Film Quarterly.

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