Film: A Very Short Introduction
Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in avant-garde art, that don't imply or quietly slip into narrative.This story element is important, and is closely connected with the simplest fact about moving pictures: they do move.Even the older meanings of the word 'film' - a membrane, a cover…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-162354-7
- EAN: 9780191623547
- Produktnummer: 13956741
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'553 KB
- Abbildungen: 15 black and white halftones
Über den Autor
Michael Wood is Charles Barnwell Start Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. He has published many books including America in the Movies (Basic Books and Secker & Warburg, 1975), The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the risks of fiction (Chatto and Windus, 1994); Belle de Jour ( BFI Film Classics, British Film Institute Publishing, 2001); and The Road toDelphi: the Life and Afterlife of Oracles (Chatto & Windus, 2004).
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