How to read a film : movies, media, and beyond : art, technology, language, history, theory

Abstract

INTRODUCTION 1. FILM AS ART: The nature of Art, Ways of Looking at Art, Film, Recording, and the Other Arts, The Structure of Art 2. TECHNOLOGY: IMAGE AND SOUND: Art and Technology, The Lens, The Camera, The Filmstock, The Soundtrack, Post-Production, Videon and Film, Projection 3. THE LANGUAGE OF FILM: SIGNS AND SYNTAX: Signs, syntax 4. THE SHAPE OF FILM HISTORY: Movies/Film/Cinema, Movies: Economics, Film: Politics, Cinema: Aesthetics 5. FILM THEORY: FORM AND FUNCTION: The Critis, The Poet and the Philosopher: Lindsay and Munsterberg, Expressionism and Realism: Arnheim and Kracauer, Montage: Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Balzacs, and Formalism, Mise en Scene: Neorealism, Bazin, and Godard, Film Speaks and Acts: Metz and Contemporary Theory 6. MEDIA: IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS: Community, Print and Electronic Media, Radio and Records, Television and Video 7. MULTIMEDIA: THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION: The Digital Revolution, The Myth of Multimedia, The Myth of Virtual Reality, The Myth of Cyberspace, What Is to be Done FILM AND MEDIA: A CHRONOLOGY - READING ABOUT FILM AND MEDIA - INDEX

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