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The Film Experience: An Introduction Paperback – 21 April 2009
by
Corrigan T.; White P.
(Author)
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Treating readers as avid film fans, this book combines beautiful design and an easy to navigate structure with all the key concepts and theory that students need for successful analysis of film. In "Focus and Concepts at Work" sections for deeper understanding of crucial film concepts and issues are presented. This book offers clear and accessible writing style with thorough explanation of concepts. Key terms are highlighted. It features over 900 images, including a special 4 colour plates section about cinematography.The second edition of this accessible book continues to examine how we can extract a broad range of meanings from the films we watch. With an improved structure, better pedagogy and more examples from popular film, this new edition continues to give students of film the vocabulary, context and critical tools they need for serious film study.
- Print length1 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPalgrave UK Print
- Publication date21 April 2009
- Dimensions21.6 x 1.8 x 27.7 cm
- ISBN-10023022329X
- ISBN-13978-0230223295
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'Rather than the often dry or unwelcoming books on the history of cinema which occasionally appear to daunt the budding film scholar, this book recognises that not everyone goes to watch French arthouse films in darkened cinemas with just a handful of others...With chapters covering editing, sound, genre, critical theories and how to write a film essay, this is a fantastic starting point for anyone who perhaps wants to take their love of film a step further to take a course on the subject or even become a critic.' - Jonathan Melville, Edinburgh Evening News
About the Author
TIMOTHY CORRIGAN is Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His numerous books include New German Film: The Displaced Image, A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam, The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, A Short Guide to Writing about Film 4e, and Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. He is also one of the three editors of the journal Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies and serves on the editorial board of Cinema Journal. He has taught film at the University of Amsterdam, Temple University, University of Iowa, and at campuses in Tokyo, Rome, Paris, and London. PATRICIA WHITE is Associate Professor and Chair of the Program in Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability and numerous articles and chapters on film theory and culture.
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- Publisher : Palgrave UK Print; 2 edition (21 April 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 1 pages
- ISBN-10 : 023022329X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0230223295
- Dimensions : 21.6 x 1.8 x 27.7 cm
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Patricia White is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She serves on the boards of Women Make Movies, Camera Obscura, and Film Quarterly.
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Michael Joseph Johnston
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Reviewed in the United States on 20 April 2014Verified Purchase
I purchased the book for a film class that uses a newer edition, but this one has all the information covered in the class, and instead of paying a hundred dollars for my text book I was able to get it for less than twenty. Solid purchase!

Siggi
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Detailierte Übersicht über die Geschichte und Technik des Films
Reviewed in Germany on 31 December 2013Verified Purchase
Dieses Buch ist fantastisch, wenn man sich für Film(e) interessiert und sich darüber informieren möchte. Von Filmgeschichte über den Produktionsprozess bis hin zu Analysetechniken ist Alles mit dabei. Und zu jedem Thema gibt es dutzende Beispiele.

C. Drouganis
3.0 out of 5 stars
This is a good general book
Reviewed in the United States on 3 December 2011Verified Purchase
This is a good quick reading book for an introductory course in film, which is why I read the book. But Corrigan does tend to just generalize many of the topics he discusses within the book. Although because most people reading the book will be using it as an elective course at the University it is written effectively.