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Understanding Movies
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Four Color DesignsThis text has been redesigned to better highlight models of modern filmmaking. Presents students with a visually inventive design, with full-color photos spread throughout the text. Market leading Technology PackagesFree student CD-ROM with video case studiessAn updated Companion Website with animations, and video clips from interviews with movie professionals and access to Research Navigator for access to New York Times film reviews. Provides students with real world perspectives on film and filmmaking and offers students outside resources, critiques and visualizations.Detailed captions accompany most of the hundreds of photos. Provides students with a visually appealing text containing publicity photos of superior technical resolution.In Chapter 1s Compelling section on contemporary special effects and computer generated imagery (CGI), and how this new technology revolutionized filmmaking. Supplies students with the most updated information on new developments in film technology.Material on the classic era of Hollywood studiossIncluding sections on such famous costume designers as MGM's Adiran and Paramount's Edith Head.Updated! Contemporary film profiles. Gives students the inside scoop on some of today's shottests stars.Wide assortment of ethnically-diverse examplessIncluding material on the Islamic cinema, especially the important new cinema on Iran, and other new sections on how racism in America affected the careers of such Africa-American artists as Paul Robeson, Hattie McDaniel, and Lena Horne. Forms a well-rounded study by exposing students to a broad, varied, and unique collection of films and perspectives.Final capstone chaptersConcludes text by recapping the main ideas of the previous chapters and applying them to a single movie, Citizen Kane. Students can use this chapter as a template or rough model for their own analytical termpapers