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Film, form, and culture / Robert Kolker.

By: Kolker, Robert Phillip [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2015Edition: 4th editionDescription: 370 pages : illustrations (colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138845725 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Motion pictures -- History | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'3 Summary: This volume offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film. With extensive analysis of films past and present, this textbook explores film from part to whole; from the smallest unit of the shot to the way shots are edited together to create narrative. It then examines those narratives (both fiction and non-fiction) as stories and genres that speak to the culture of their time and our perceptions of them today.
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Originally published: London: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film. With extensive analysis of films past and present, this textbook explores film from part to whole; from the smallest unit of the shot to the way shots are edited together to create narrative. It then examines those narratives (both fiction and non-fiction) as stories and genres that speak to the culture of their time and our perceptions of them today.

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