Building on studentsÕ enthusiasm for screened entertainment, Looking at Movies is more successful than any other text at motivating students to understand and analyze what they see onscreen. The Seventh Edition features new and refreshed video, assessment, and interactive media, making the bookÕs pathbreaking media program more assignable and gradable than ever before. Looking at Movies gives instructors all they need to inspire students to graduate from passive watching to active looking.
Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major written sources and many which are little known, and he shares with us many eloquent descriptions of the films themselves, giving us a valuable textbook." --Richard Dyer MacCann "... superb work... " --Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Building on students' enthusiasm for movies, this text is more successful than any other at motivating students to understand and analyze film. In the new Sixth Edition, author Dave Monahan has thoroughly revised the book for clarity and currency, while adding new interactive learning tools to support student learning. The best book and media package for introductory film just got better.
Film analysis starts here.Looking at Movies is the most effective introduction to film analysis available. From its very first chapter, Looking at Movies provides students with the tools they need to become perceptive viewers of film. The Fourth Edition is not only more comprehensive, but also more accessible and sophisticated in its integration of media.
Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major written sources and many which are little known, and he shares with us many eloquent descriptions of the films themselves, giving us a valuable textbook." --Richard Dyer MacCann "... superb work... " --Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Building on studentsÕ enthusiasm for screened entertainment, Looking at Movies is more successful than any other text at motivating students to understand and analyze what they see onscreen. The Seventh Edition features new and refreshed video, assessment, and interactive media, making the bookÕs pathbreaking media program more assignable and gradable than ever before. Looking at Movies gives instructors all they need to inspire students to graduate from passive watching to active looking.
Sam Tucker has spent his life in the army. He was involved in the first Iraq war where he was decorated. He was court marshaled as a result of an incident when returning to Iraq in the second conflict and after a prison sentence, was dishonorably discharged. With no experience except the army he joined an organization run by a Russian ex- KGB officer who assonated people for a fee. As successful as Sam was, he came to the attention of Interpol and Scotland Yards special Branch. Life became more complicated when Sam fell in love with the ex mistress of his ex-KGB boss and they decided to marry. The story details Sams contracts and his involvement with his mistress, his boss, the police and the British Army and has a surprising conclusion.
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