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• Title:A short guide to writing about film / Timothy Corrigan with Graham Corrigan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Corrigan, Timothy, 1951-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Corrigan, Graham, author.
  
• Published/Created:Boston : Pearson, [2015]
  

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  • Location:Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)
    
  • Call Number: PN1995 .C66 2015
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at OKANAGAN LIBRARY reserve collectionWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN1995 .C66 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Film criticism.
  
• Edition:Ninth edition.
  
• Description:xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, 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 can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780321965301 (instructor's edition)
  0321965302 (instructor's edition)
  9780321965240 (student's edition)
  0321965248 (student's edition)
  9780321996480 (ALC edition)
  0321996488 (ALC edition)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Writing About The Movies
  Why Write about the Movies?
  Your Audience and the Aims of Film Criticism
  Screening Report
  Movie Review
  Theoretical Essay
  Critical Essay
  Opinion and Evaluation
  Exercises
  2. Beginning To Think, Preparing To Watch, And Starting To Write
  Subject Matter and Meaning
  Silent Dialogue: Talking Back to the Movies
  Taking Notes
  Visual Memory and Reflection
  Exercises
  3. Film Terms And Topics For Film Analysis And Writing
  Themes
  Film and the Other Arts
  Narrative
  Characters
  Point of View
  Comparative Essays and Adaptations
  Mise-en-Scene and Realism
  Realism
  Elements of Mise-en-Scene
  Composition and the Image
  Shot
  Edited Image
  Sound
  Animation, 3D, and New Media
  Sample Essay
  Exercises
  4. Six Approaches To Writing About Film
  Film History
  National Cinemas
  Genres
  Auteurs
  Kinds of Formalism
  Ideology
  Sample Essays
  Exercises
  5. Style And Structure In Writing
  Right Words
  Concrete Language
  Denotation and Connotation
  Tone
  Repetitions and Clich$$s
  Effective Sentences
  Economy
  Varied Sentence Structures
  Coherent Paragraphs
  Introductory Paragraphs
  Concluding Paragraphs
  Revisions and Proofreading
  Checklist for Writing an Effective Essay
  Exercises
  6. Researching The Movies
  How to Begin Research
  Materials of Research
  Primary Sources
  DVDs and Digital Downloads
  Scripts
  Secondary Sources: Books, Indexes, Journals, and Electronic Sources
  Film Research on the Internet
  Taking Notes on Secondary Sources
  Writing the Paper
  Sample Essays
  Exercises
  7. Manuscript Form
  Manuscript Copy
  Last-Minute Corrections
  Quotations
  Acknowledging Sources
  Common Knowledge
  Documenting Sources
  Notes for Documentation
  Works Cited
  Notes Supplying Additional Commentary
  Common Conventions of Usage
  Names
  Titles
  Foreign Words and Quotation Marks
  Bias-Free Language
  Spelling
  Last Words.