Reading the Silver Screen: A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves Contributor(s): Foster, Thomas C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062113399 ISBN-13: 9780062113399 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Reference - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 791.430 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 400 pages |
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Publisher Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film. No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frightened, elated, moved, and thrilled. We expect magic. While we're being exhilarated and terrified, our minds are also processing data of all sorts--visual, linguistic, auditory, spatial--to collaborate in the construction of meaning. In Reading the Silver Screen, readers will gain the expertise and confidence to glean all they can from the movies they love. |
Contributor Bio(s): Foster, Thomas C.: - Thomas C. Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor and Reading the Silver Screen, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he taught classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as creative writing and freelance writing. He is also the author of several books on 20th-century British and Irish literature and poetry. |