TY - BOOK AU - Corrigan,Timothy AU - White,Patricia TI - Film experience: an introduction SN - 9780312445850 AV - PN1995 .C655 2009 U1 - 791/.437 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, NY PB - Bedford/St. Martins KW - Motion pictures N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contexts: making, watching, and studying movies -- Introduction to the film experience -- Preparing viewers and views: production, distribution, promotion, and exhibition -- Compositions: film scenes, shots, cuts, and sounds -- Exploring a material world: mise-en-scène -- Seeing through the image: cinematography -- Relating images: editing -- Listening to the cinema: film sound -- Organizational structures: from stories to genres -- Telling stories about time: narrative films -- Representing the real: documentary films -- Experimental screens: avant-garde film, video art, and new media -- Rituals, conventions, archetypes, and formulas: movie genres -- Hollywood and the world -- Conventional film history: evolutions, masterpieces, and periodization -- Global and local: inclusive histories of the movies -- Reactions: reading and writing about film -- Reading about film: critical theories and methods -- Writing a film essay: observations, arguments, research, and analysis ER -