An Introduction to Film

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. • http://www.NortonEbooks.com FOURTH EDITION LOOKING AT MOVIES Richard Barsam & Dave Monaha ...

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LOOKING AT MOVIES FOURTH EDITION ...

LOOKING FOURTH EDITION ...

AT MOVIES W. W. NORTON & COMPANY BNEW YORK • LONDON AN INTRODUCTION TO FILM RICHARD BARSAM & DAVE MONAHAN ...

W. W. Norton & Company has been independent since its founding in 1923, when William Warder Norton and Mary D. Herter Norton ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR v About the Authors RICHARD BARSAM(Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor Emeritus of Film Stud ...

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CONTENTSvii Contents To Students xiii Preface xv ...

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xiiCONTENTS CHAPTER Acknowledgments xix Looking at Movies Learning Objectives Looking at Movies What Is a Movie? Ways of Lookin ...

To StudentsTo Students xiii In 1936, art historian Erwin Panofsky had an insight into the movies as a form of popular art—an obs ...

the foundation for its meaning. After all, in the real life of the movies, on the screen, it is not historians, theorists, or cr ...

xv Students in an introductory film course who read Looking at Moviescarefully and take full advantage of the materials surround ...

“Screening Checklists” Each chapter ends with an “Analyzing” section that includes a “Screening Checklist” feature. This series ...

students to look at elements of the film more ana- lytically. These captions expand on the in-text pres- entation and reinforce ...

Test Bank Completely rewritten for this edition, each chapter of the test bank includes a “concept map,” 60– multiple-choice and ...