Describing Cinema

by Timothy Corrigan

Book Overview

In Describing Cinema, award-winning film scholar Timothy Corrigan explores the art and poetics of writing about film. Part theory, part rhetoric, and part pedagogy, the text examines and demonstrates acts of describing scenes, shots, and sequences in films as the most common and most underestimated way viewers respond to movies. Describing Cinema represents a global range of movies from Hollywood to Morocco to Rome, made from the 1940s to the present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197625363
• ISBN13: 9780197625361
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 7.9"