A Viewer's Guide to Film: Arts, Artifices, and Issues

By Richard Gollin

This handbook of film terms and issues is intended as a supplement for basic film history courses, but it may also be used as a text for film appreciation courses. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007023700X
• ISBN13: 9780070237001
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive, Insightful, and Essential

A must have for every filmmaker, motion picture historian, movie reviewer, and film fan. Absolutely everything you wanted to know about what goes into making movies work the way they do. -- Reni Bor-Nevets

Excellent intro to study of film

I've used this book in teaching film courses (I'm a former student of Professor Gollin myself) and find this a very readable introduction to the study of film. Prof. Gollin takes the reader through the production process as well as explaining various academic and critical approaches to film studies. I would recommend this to any serious film viewer who is looking for a place to begin a deeper understanding of this popular art form.