Friday Feb 22, 2008

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What's a significant goal in your life????

Really.

You answer first and then ill tell you mine.


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To live for at least two years on all of the continents.

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schiavona:
A really significant goal? I don't think I have anything lofty, but losing 40 pounds feels very significant right now. smile


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l_f:
Regarding yesterday's conversation, here are some books for you.

These cover essential requisites and give a large vision of film:

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  • How To Read a Film: multimedia edition, by James Monaco - It includes 4 books and zillions of resources and multimedia;

  • The Art of Watching Film with CD-ROM, by Joe Boggs and Dennis W. Petrie;

  • How Movies Work, by Bruce Kawin;

  • Understanding Movies (latest ed.), by Louis Giannetti;

  • Film Art w/ Film Viewer's Guide and Tutorial CD-ROM, by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson.


Proper film theory:

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  • The Major Film Theories: An Introduction, by J. Dudley Andrew;

  • Concepts in Film Theory, by J. Dudley Andrew;

  • Film Theory: An Introduction, by Robert Stam;

  • Aesthetics of Film, by Jacques Aumont et al.;

  • Introduction to Film Studies (latest ed.), by Jill Nelmes (editor) - It works as a complement.


The volumes below have a variety of articles by classical or contemporary film theorists, some much heavier than others. I avoided whole books by classical theorists at this time, rather focusing on diversity of viewpoints:

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  • Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (latest ed.), by Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen (editors) - This one includes a lot of classical stuff;

  • A Companion to Film Theory, by Toby Miller and Robert Stam (editors);

  • Film and Theory: An Anthology, by Toby Miller and Robert Stam (editors);

  • Film Studies: Critical Approaches, by John Hill et al (editors);

  • Movies and Methods: Vols. I --II, by Bill Nichols (editor);

  • Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology, by Nol Carroll and Jinhee Choi (editors);

  • French Film Theory and Criticism: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Vols. 1 -- 2, by Richard Abel (editor) - As it says: All classical and all French.


The beginning of the recommendations, hehe!

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  • The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt, by Lotte Eisner;

  • Fritz Lang, by Lotte Eisner.



Ah! Regarding significant goals...

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Being face to face with a figment of my imagination. wink

Cheers,
Lord_Frous

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