A Short Guide to Writing About Film
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A Short Guide to Writing About Film by Timothy Corrigan
This practical guide addresses how to write effective and perceptive essays about film - a fundamental requirement of any course involving film history or criticism. It first explains why writing about cinema can be such an interesting activity, and then discusses the various stages in the writing process specific to film studies - taking notes on a movie, making an outline, finding and researching a topic, integrating technical details into an analysis and revising for sharper style. A full chapter on writing a film essay discusses how and when to do research, and lists bibliographical indexes and major film journals. Revised with an updated list of sources, this edition also features references to more recent films.TIMOTHY CORRIGAN is a University of Pennsylvania professor of cinema studies, English, and art history. His writings include New German Film: The Displaced Image, Werner Herzog's Films: Between Mirage and History, Writing About Film, A Cinema Without Walls: Pictures and Culture After Vietnam, Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader, and The Film Experience, in addition to a number of pieces on Hazlitt, Keats, and De Quincey. Philological Quarterly, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and a number of film magazines have published his work. His most recent project, The Essay Film, traces the growth of the essayistic in modern film practices by returning to his earlier work in British romanticism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780673522993 |
| ISBN 10 | 0673522997 |
| Title | A Short Guide to Writing About Film |
| Author | Timothy Corrigan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pearson Education Limited |
| Year published | 1993-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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