Includes glossary and index.

Analyzing movies -- Narrative and genre -- Mise-en-sc©·ne -- Camera work -- Editing -- Sound -- The commercial and industrial contexts -- Documentary, animated, and experimental films -- Film history -- Writing about film.

Succinct, lively, and affordable, this text provides a clear focus on developing your skills in film analysis. Offering the most engaging instruction available, this exciting first edition is packed with illustrations from films that you will readily relate to. It features interviews with award-winning film practitioners, who offer insights into film form and style. Videos of the complete interviews are available through the eBook version as well as the text website. In addition, unique screening questions will help you apply chapter concepts to any film you watch, while the running glossary and end-of-text illustrated glossary ensure that you have easy access to full explanations of concepts.