Understanding Movies by Gianetti is a hugely readable and lively basic text
book.
Sarienne Kersh
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From: "Darby Anton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 4:05 PM
Subject: [FILM-PHILOSOPHY] Advise for an amateur please!
Excuse me, I'm not on the elevated level of some of the eminent members
here. But a question please. I am an avid filmgoer as are the other members
of my family, and have seen a great many of the classics old and new (I live
near to a cinema museum). I have been trying to delve a bit deeper into the
art of film, so started off with film studies, a kind of film theory made
simple that wasn't that bad. Then my daughter bought my volume 1 of
Deleuze's book which offered me a few gems here and there but was bit too
much to take in at this stage of the game. I bought Reading the film by
James Monaco, which I am enjoying immensely, very much my level. I bought
Encyclopaedia by Katz expecting it to be a Monaco-style book bought on a
blow-by-blow basis but it turns out to be focused on individual actors
rather than the mechanics or theory of filmmaking. So could anybody point me
in the right direction please? What I would like at this stage would be a
film-by-film account of films: type of shots, point of view omnisicience,
narrative structure, genre, school. That sort of thing
We went to see Another Year with friends recently, one of whom worked as a
cameraman for a while. Afterwards, he was talking in the café about how you
could see the director came from the world of television, then he started to
go into recurring items in the film that gave it structure, and lots more
besides. I would love to be able to have the tools to do that. As with
reading, I tend to get completely carried away with the story and think
about it only over the next few days. Anyway, if any of you have any ideas
about furthering my filmic education I would be very grateful, bearing in
mind I am not an academic but am far from being a nitwit.
Anton
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