Film, Form, and Culture w/ DVD-ROM
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Book Description
This text looks at film from part to whole--from the shot and the cut to the cultural, political, and economic contexts in which films are made. "Teaching Film is about getting control of the image and handing that control over to students," argues author Robert Kolker, and that's just what he does in his teaching and writing about film, including in this outstanding textbook and DVD-ROM package.
The new edition includes more detailed discussion of the shot, composition, editing, and genre; a thorough discussion of the technical and aesthetic changes resulting from film's digital transformation; and a revised discussion of the cultural context of film. The companion interactive DVD-ROM includes segments from classic and contemporary films, with explanatory text, stills, and animations illustrating key film elements and strategies.
About the Author
Robert Kolker teaches film studies and digital theory and practice at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently the president of the Society for Cinema Studies. He is the author of several books on film. A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman will soon appear in its third edition. His book on European film, The Altering Eye, is now on the World Wide Web at http://otal.umd.edu/~rkolker/AlteringEye. His first online work combining film analysis with moving images, "The Moving Image Reclaimed," can be found in Postmodern Culture (Volume 5, Number 1, September 1994, at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/toc/pmcv005.html. He edited the special film issue of that journal, Volume 8, Number 2, January 1998 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/toc/pmcv008.html#v008.1 Advances, Grants and Royalty payments are paid through Literary Agent - Robert Lieberman (address in "Other Address" tax id# 16-1467985
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