TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monaco,James
TI  - How to read a film: movies, media, and beyond : art, technology, language, history, theory 
SN  - 9780195321050 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
AV  - PN1994 .M59 2009
U1  - 791.43/01/5 21
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 678-691) and indexes; 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
N2  - James Monaco discusses the elements necessary to understand how a film conveys its meaning, and, more importantly, how the audience can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate
ER  -