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A short guide to writing about film / Timothy Corrigan.
LIBRA PN1995 .C66 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corrigan, Timothy, 1951-
- Series:
- Short guide series
- The short guide series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pearson/Longman, [2004]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0321096657
- OCLC:
- 51854856
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