A Short Guide to Writing About Film, Fifth Edition
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This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. With numerous student and professional examples along the way, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film becomes more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to film terms and the major film theories to enable them to write more critically. For individuals who want to think and write critically about film.
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This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. With numerous student and professional examples along the way, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film becomes more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to film terms and the major film theories to enable them to write more critically. For individuals who want to think and write critically about film.
A Short Guide to Writing About Film, Fifth Edition,Timothy Corrigan,Longman,0321096657,Composition & Creative Writing - Academic,Composition & Creative Writing - General,Composition & Creative Writing - Nonfiction,Film criticism,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy,Cinema industry,Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing,Writing skills
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