Monaco, James

How to read a film: movies, media, and beyond/ James Monaco - 4th ed. - Oxford : New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. - 729 p. ill. ; 24 cm.

Film as an art -- Technology : image and sound -- The language of film : signs and syntax -- The shape of film history -- Film theory : form and function -- Media : in the middle of things -- Multimedia : the digital revolution -- Film and media : a chronology -- Reading about film and media : a select library.

9780195321050 (pbk. : acidfree paper)


Motion pictures.

791.4301 / MON/H