A short guide to writing about film, Timothy Corrigan

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A short guide to writing about film, Timothy Corrigan

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Timothy Corrigan

Instantiates

• A short guide to writing about film

Publication

• New York | London, Pearson Longman, 2007

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Preface
• 1.
• Writing About the Movies.
• p. 1
• Why Write about the Movies?.
• p. 1
• Your Audience and the Aims of Film Criticism.
• p. 6
• Screening Report.
• p. 7
• Movie Review.
• p. 8
• Theoretical Essay.
• p. 10
• Critical Essay.
• p. 11
• Opinion and Evaluation.
• p. 14
• Exercises.
• p. 17
• 2.
• Beginning to Think, Preparing to Watch, and Starting to Write.
• p. 18
• Subject Matter and Meaning.
• p. 22
• Silent Dialogue: Talking Back to the Movies.
• p. 22
• Taking Notes.
• p. 26
• Visual Memory and Reflection.
• p. 29
• Exercises.
• p. 35
• 3.
• Film Terms and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing.
• p. 36
• Themes.
• p. 37
• Film and the Other Arts.
• p. 39
• Narrative.
• p. 39
• Characters.
• p. 43
• Point of View.
• p. 46
• Comparative Essays.
• p. 47
• Mise-en-Scene and Realism.
• p. 48
• Realism.
• p. 48
• Elements of Mise-en-Scene.
• p. 51
• Composition and the Image.
• p. 57
• Shot.
• p. 58
• Edited Image.
• p. 65
• Sound.
• p. 72
• Sample Essay.
• p. 76
• Exercises.
• p. 80
• 4.
• Six Approaches to Writing About Film.
• p. 82
• Film History.
• p. 83
• National Cinemas.
• p. 85
• Genres.
• p. 87
• Auteurs.
• p. 89
• Kinds of Formalism.
• p. 90
• Ideology.
• p. 92
• Sample Essays.
• p. 95
• Exercises.
• p. 108
• 5.
• Style and Structure in Writing.
• p. 109
• Right Words.
• p. 112
• Concrete Language.
• p. 112
• Denotation and Connotation.
• p. 112
• Tone.
• p. 113
• Repetitions and Cliches.
• p. 114
• Effective Sentences.
• p. 115
• Economy.
• p. 115
• Varied Sentence Structures.
• p. 116
• Coherent Paragraphs.
• p. 117
• Introductory Paragraphs.
• p. 121
• Concluding Paragraphs.
• p. 123
• Checklist for Writing an Effective Essay.
• p. 124
• Exercises.
• p. 126
• 6.
• Researching the Movies.
• p. 127
• How to Begin Research.
• p. 130
• Materials of Research.
• p. 132
• Primary Sources.
• p. 133
• Video.
• p. 133
• Scripts.
• p. 134
• Secondary Sources: Books, Indexes, Journals, and Electronic Sources.
• p. 135
• Film Research on the Internet.
• p. 142
• Taking Notes on Secondary Sources.
• p. 145
• Writing the Paper.
• p. 146
• Sample Essays.
• p. 148
• Exercises.
• p. 155
• 7.
• Manuscript Form.
• p. 157
• Manuscript Copy.
• p. 157
• Last-Minute Corrections.
• p. 158
• Quotations.
• p. 160
• Acknowledging Sources.
• p. 162
• Common Knowledge.
• p. 164
• Documenting Sources.
• p. 165
• Notes for Documentation.
• p. 165
• Works Cited.
• p. 167
• Notes Supplying Additional Commentary.
• p. 170
• Common Conventions of Usage.
• p. 171
• Names.
• p. 171
• Titles.
• p. 172
• Foreign Words and Quotation Marks.
• p. 172
• Sexist Language.
• p. 173
• Spelling.
• p. 173
• Last words.
• p. 174
• Appendix.
• Symbols Commonly Used in Marking Papers.
• p. 175
• Glossary of Film Terms.
• p. 177
• Works Cited.
• p. 183
• Credits.
• p. 185
• Index.
• p. 187

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111035478

Dimensions

21 cm.

Edition

6th ed.

Extent

xiv, 193 p.

Isbn

9780321412287

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

ill.

Record ID

b2010001