Film analysis starts here.Looking at Movies is the most effective introduction to film analysis available. From its very first chapter, Looking at Movies provides students with the tools they need to become perceptive viewers of film. The Fourth Edition is not only more comprehensive, but also more accessible and sophisticated in its integration of media.
Building on students' enthusiasm for movies, this text is more successful than any other at motivating students to understand and analyze film.
Two DVDs complement and elaborate on key concepts in the text.
Looking at Movies, Third Edition is an accessible and visually dynamic introduction to film studies that offers more media support and a lower price than all of its competitors.
The Seventh Edition features new and refreshed video, assessment, and interactive media, making the bookÕs pathbreaking media program more assignable and gradable than ever before.
Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film
Film analysis starts here.
Building on students' enthusiasm for movies, this text is more successful than any other at motivating students to understand and analyze film.
Examines nineteen popular films, such as The Godfather trilogy, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and American Beauty, and shows how they convey a range of striking perspectives on the human encounter with God. Original.
The only writing guide a film student will ever need
Colin McGinn–“an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream,” according to Steven Pinker–enhances our understanding of both movies and ourselves in this book of rare and refreshing insight.