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Aug 30, 2008 · Of course it would be wise to research a film you hope to dismantle in public, and be familiar with its director and context, but I believe the process in its pure form could be applied to a film you've never even heard of. I want to tell you how.
Reading a film involves understanding the story we see unfold on screen and acknowledging the formal elements that make up film language. Formal analysis is the active process of decoding these formal elements. If you are writing about a film, you must include some formal analysis.
A film is something we can read just as carefully and consciously as a book or poem. Thus, the first step to being a good film reader is to watch with pen and notebook (or writing journal) in hand, jotting down notes as you watch the film. This will give you specific things to talk about in our class discussions and when you write your essays.
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To watch it like a movie instead of read it like a book will disappoint you, or make it seem small, which it isn’t. Such responses to Brooklyn reveal how both cinematic and literary narratives are caught up in and come up against the gendered aspects of genre, and the gendered aspects of viewing and reading.
May 8, 2009 · With hundreds of illustrative black-and-white film stills and diagrams, How to Read a Film is an indispensable addition to the library of everyone who loves the cinema and wants to understand it better.
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Jul 17, 2003 · Short stories and novels are more adaptable, yet the experiences of reading a work of fiction and of seeing a film remain radically different and on some level irreconcilable.
To help you gain practical skills in reading a film, you’ll start by exploring the story world. You’ll unpack elements of mise-en-scène as well as shot choices to understand how a filmmaker creates a narrative. Explore the importance of continuity editing. Next, you’ll delve into editing devices to understand how films create sequences.
