Screen Media, 1st Edition, 9781741754483
Paperback
An introduction to film and television analysis for students that shows how to hone their powers of observation and provides the vocabulary they need to articulate what they see.

Screen Media, 1st Edition

analysing film and television

$76.44

  • Paperback

    412 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2009

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Summary

Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of ‘thinking on both sides of the screen’. They show how to develop the skills to understand and analyse how and why a screen text was shot, scored, and edited in a particular way, and then to consider what impact those production choices might have on the audience.Stadler and McWilliam set production techniques and appr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781741754483
ISBN-10:1741754488
Author:Jane Stadler
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Imprint:Allen & Unwin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:412
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 January 2009
Weight:760g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

‘Screen Media offers a systematic approach to film and television analysis. The examples chosen by the authors are both appropriate and timely, and are presented in a very lively and readable form that will appeal to an international readership.’ - Rebecca L. Abbott, Professor of Film, Video + Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, USA

About The Author

Jane Stadler

JANE STADLER is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She is author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film and Ethics and co-author with Michael O’Shaughnessy of Media and Society. KELLY MCWILLIAM is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology. She is author of When Carrie Met Sally: Lesbian Romantic Comedies and co-editor with John Hartley of Story Circle: Digital Storytelling around the World.

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