TY - BOOK AU - Kolker,Robert Phillip TI - Film, form, and culture SN - 9781138845725 (pbk.) : U1 - 791.4'3 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Motion pictures KW - History KW - Performing Arts KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: London: McGraw-Hill, 2006; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 ER -