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Short Guide to Writing About Film, A, 5/E
Timothy Corrigan, Temple University

ISBN-10: 0321096657
ISBN-13:  9780321096654

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2004
Format:  Paper; 208 pp
Published:  05/29/2003
New edition available
  This item has been replaced by Short Guide to Writing about Film, A, 7/E.



This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film.

Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to film terms and the major film theories, enabling them to write more critically. With numerous student and professional examples along the way, 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 becomes more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.

  • Briefly presents several approaches to film analysis and writing about film—auteurs, genres, ideology, kinds of formalism, and national cinemas.
  • Introduces students to a range of film terms and topics—mise-en-scéne, point-of-view, composition, and realism.
  • Each chapter concludes with short writing exercises that help students view, evaluate, and write about film more critically.
  • A comprehensive Glossary allows students to accurately describe their observations of the details of film practice.

  • Thirty percent of photos are new and feature more pedagogical direction in the captions.
  • Discussions and images are updated with examples from recent films like Spiderman, Lord of the Rings, Monster's Ball, and Life Is Beautiful.
  • Discussion of electronic resources for film research has been expanded, offering guidelines on where to look for online film information, how to think about the quality of that electronic material, and how to properly document those sources.
  • A revised Chapter 4 provides exciting new perspectives on the movies by identifying more recent approaches to film study such as postcolonial theory and queer theory.
  • A new section on “Reading Film Criticism” in Chapter 6 provides some basic reminders and suggestions on how to read and annotate film criticism.
  • Chapter 6 provides a fully revised and updated list of journals and secondary sources.

Each chapter concludes with “Exercises.”

Preface.

1. Writing About the Movies.

Why Write about the Movies?

Your Audience and the Aims of Film Criticism.

The Movie Review.

The Theoretical Essay.

The Critical Essay.

Opinion and Evaluation.

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.

3. Film Terms and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing.

Themes.

Film and the Other Arts.

Narrative.

Characters.

Point of View.

Mise-en-Scéne and Realism.

Realism.

Elements of the Mise-en-Scéne.

Composition and the Image.

The Shot.

The Edited Image.

Sound.

Sample Essay.

4. Six Approaches to Writing About Film.

Film History.

National Cinemas.

Genres.

Auteurs.

Kinds of Formalism.

Ideology.

Postcolonial Studies and Queer theory.

Sample Essays.

5. Style and Structure in Writing.

The Right Words.

Concrete Language.

Denotation and Connotation.

Tone.

Repetitions and Clichés.

Effective Sentences.

Economy.

Varied Sentence Structures.

Coherent Paragraphs.

Introductory Paragraphs.

Concluding Paragraphs.

Checklist for Writing an Effective Essay.

6. Researching the Movies.

How to Begin Research.

The Materials of Research.

Primary Sources.

Video.

Scripts.

Secondary Sources: Books, Indexes, Journals, and Electronic Sources.

Film Research on the Internet.

Taking Notes on Secondary Sources.

Writing the Paper.

Sample Essays.

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.

Sexist Language.

Spelling.

Last Words.

Appendix: Symbols Commonly Used in Marking Papers.

Glossary of Film Terms.

Works Cited.

Credits.

Index.

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