The language of film / Robert Edgar-Hunt, John Marland, Steven Rawle.

Includes bibliographical references.

Semiotics -- Images -- The visual mind -- Reading the signs -- Making meaning -- Codes and filters -- Case study Seven -- Narrative -- Theories of storytelling -- Structuralism -- Theories of structure -- Genette's narrative discourse -- Music -- Case study Cheap Beans -- Intertextuality -- Text -- Quotation -- Allusion -- Cult film -- Genre -- Case study Citizen Kane -- Ideology -- Ideological analysis -- Realism -- Ideology and genre -- Case study: Without Wires -- Frames and images -- The shot -- Distance height and framing -- Shot distances -- Mise en scene -- The mobile camera frame -- Time and the long take -- Case study Without Tyres -- Constructing meaning -- Continuity editing -- Discontinuity editing -- Montage -- Sound editing and filmic space -- Case study: Tide.

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