Synopses & Reviews
'\'Disc 1 offers 25 short \\\'tutorials\\\' that elaborate on key concepts in the text, helping students see what the text describes. These tutorials include:
\\\' Film clips and frame sequences, conceived, directed, hosted, edited, and narrated byco-author and filmmaker Dave Monahan. These short tutorials elaborate on key conceptsin the text, helping students see what the text describes.
\\\' Original footage produced exclusively for Looking at Movies. This footage provides briefoverview of the technical aspects of filmmaking: camera angles, moving-camera effects,and others.
Visit wwnorton.com/college/film/movies3 for sample clips from Disc 1.
Disc 2 includes an anthology of 12 short films, from 5 to 30 minutes in length. These short films are entertaining examples of the form, as well as useful material for in-class activities or student analysis. Most of the films are accompanied by optional audio commentary from the directors recorded specifically for Looking at Movies.\''
Synopsis
Disc 1 offers 25 short 'tutorials,' helping students see what the text describes. Disc 2 includes an anthology of 12 short films, from 5 to 30 minutes in length. Together, the DVDs offer nearly five hours of pedagogically useful moving-image content.
Synopsis
Two DVDs complement and elaborate on key concepts in the text.
About the Author
Richard Barsam (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (rev., exp. ed. 1992), The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker (1988), In the Dark: A Primer for the Movies (1977), and Filmguide to "Triumph of the Will" (1975); editor of Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism (1976); and contributing author to Paul Monaco's The Sixties: 1960-1969 (Vol. 8, History of the American Cinema, 2001) and Filming Robert Flaherty's "Louisiana Story": The Helen Van Dongen Diary (ed. Eva Orbanz, 1998). His articles and book reviews have appeared in Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Film Comment, Studies in Visual Communication, and Harper's. He has been a member of the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Editorial Board of Cinema Journal, and the Board of Advisers of the History of American Cinema series, and he cofounded the journal Persistence of Vision.Dave Monahan (M.F.A., Columbia University) is Associate Professor and Chair of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His work as a writer, director, or editor includes Ringo (2005), Monkey Junction (2005), Prime Time (1996), and Angels Watching Over Me (1993). His work has been screened internationally in over fifty film festivals and has earned numerous awards, including the New Line Cinema Award for Most Original Film (Prime Time) and the Seattle International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short Film (Ringo).