[PDF] Movies and Meaning

• Author : Stephen Prince
• Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
• Release Date : 2001
• ISBN : 0205314155

Movies and Meaning is a comprehensive introduction to the film industry that focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. It examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen.

• Author : Daniel Shaw
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release Date : 2017-06-29
• ISBN : 9781474299312

This book pairs close readings of some of the classic writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of films that reveal striking parallels to each of those texts, demonstrating their respective philosophies in action. Individual chapters include significant excerpts from the original texts being discussed and illustrated. Pairings cover Schopenhauer and Waking Life, Stirner and Hud, Kierkegaard and Winter Light, Nietzsche and The Fountainhead, Heidegger, Blade Runner and The Thin Red Line, Camus, Leaving Las Vegas and Missing, Sartre, Husbands and

• Author : Kimberly A. Blessing,Paul Tudico
• Publisher : Open Court
• Release Date : 2013-12-01
• ISBN : 9780812698749

"The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions," said the existentiallist thinker Albert Camus. And no less a philosopher than Woody Allen has wondered:"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" "Movies and the Meaning of Life" looks at popular and cult movies, examining their assumptions and insights on meaning-of-life questions: What is reality and how can I know it? (The Truman Show, Contact, Waking Life); How do

• Author : Stephen Prince
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2001
• ISBN : OCLC:865480464

• Author : Jennifer Beryl Hammett
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1993
• ISBN : UCAL:C3279679

• Author : Stephen Prince
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2007
• ISBN : 0205497578

• Author : Stephen Prince
• Publisher : Pearson College Division
• Release Date : 2009-01-28
• ISBN : 0205660215

This package contains the following components: -0205653081: Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film -0205688004: MyCommunicationKit

• Author : Bill Nichols
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 1976
• ISBN : 0520054091

Fifty theoretical essays by distinctively original and influential film critics and filmmakers are grouped in categories having to do with general considerations, structuralism-semiology, political factors, genre, feminism, auteur theory, and mise-en-scene

• Author : Costica Bradatan,Camil Ungureanu
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2014-02-18
• ISBN : 9781317860181

The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion" is itself a form of religious life. A sense of complex, subterraneous interaction between religious, heterodox, secular and atheistic experiences has thus emerged, which makes the phenomenon all the more fascinating to study, and this is what Religion in Contemporary European Cinema

• Author : Stephen Prince
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2012-01-26
• ISBN : 0205217044

This comprehensive introduction to film text focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. Using clear, accessible, and jargon-free writing, this is the only introductory film text to examine the elements of film style and the viewer's contribution to the cinema experience. How do viewers interpret the effects filmmakers create? How do filmmakers anticipate, and build on, the likely ways viewers will react

• Author : John Lyden
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2009-05-07
• ISBN : 9781135220655

The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film brings together a lively and experienced team of contributors to introduce students to the key topics in religion and film and to investigate the ways in which the exciting subject of religion and film is developing for more experienced scholars. Divided into four parts, the Companion: analyzes the history of the interaction of religion and film, through periods of censorship as well as appreciation of the medium studies religion-in-film, examining how the world’

• Author : Christopher Deacy
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-03-02
• ISBN : 9781351937245

How plausible is it to examine the medium of film through a Christian lens? Are there any grounds for supposing that, in 'going to the movies', one is participating in a religious activity? Faith in Film identifies and explores these key questions. From the unprecedented and innovative perspective of Christian theology, this book investigates how cinema audiences wrestle with religious beliefs and values. Through a reading of films as diverse as Groundhog Day, Billy Liar, Fight Club, Nobody's Fool and

• Author : Robert K. Johnston,Craig Detweiler,Kutter Callaway
• Publisher : Baker Academic
• Release Date : 2019-03-19
• ISBN : 9781493416912

Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film

• Author : Gregory J Watkins
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release Date : 2008-08-22
• ISBN : 9780195335989

In a culture increasingly focused on visual media, students have learned not only to embrace multimedia presentations in the classroom, but to expect them. This text thinks about the theoretical and pedagogical concerns involved with the intersection of film and religion in the classroom.

• Author : Zetmec
• Publisher : Booklocker.Com Incorporated
• Release Date : 2008-11-01
• ISBN : 098162040X

Full of fun quotes, buzz, and dozens of ideas for movies to rent, this is thefirst pocket guide in The Good Movie Guide series.