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Building on students' enthusiasm for movies, this text is more successful than any other at motivating students to understand and analyze film. In the new Sixth Edition, author Dave Monahan has thoroughly revised the book for clarity and currency, while adding new interactive... Read Full Overview

Building on students' enthusiasm for screened entertainment, Looking at Movies is more successful than any other text at motivating students to understand and analyze what they see onscreen. The Seventh Edition features new and refreshed video, assessment, and interactive media,... Read Full Overview

The best-selling film appreciation text on the market, Looking at Movies succeeds by building on students' enthusiasm for screened entertainment. It introduces students to film studies by starting with the movies they know and love before guiding them to more serious film analysis--with... Read Full Overview

Looking at Movies is the most effective introduction to film analysis available. From its very first chapter, Looking at Movies provides students with the tools they need to become perceptive viewers of film. The Fourth Edition is not only more comprehensive, but also more accessible... Read Full Overview

Looking at Movies is the most effective, engaging, and widely adopted introduction to film analysis available. From its very first chapter, Looking at Movies provides students with all the tools they need to become perceptive viewers of film, including the most sophisticated... Read Full Overview

Shaped by Richard Barsam's more than twenty years of classroom experience,Looking at Moviesuses students' natural enthusiasm for the subject as a foundation for going beyond enjoyment toward intelligent, analytical understanding of movies. Professor Barsam's clear writing, thorough... Read Full Overview

Supplementary materials, conceived and created by the authors, integrate seamlessly with the text. Two DVDs contain nearly four hours of film clips, frame sequences, short films, and animations to show what the text describes. The Looking at Movies student website provides an... Read Full Overview

This is a preassembled package of Looking at Movies (978-0-393-67469-9) and Writing About Movies (978-0-393-66490-4). Building on students' enthusiasm for movies, these texts are more successful than any other at motivating students to understand, analyze, and write about film... Read Full Overview

Looking at Movies is the most effective, engaging, and widely adopted introduction to film analysis available. From its very first chapter, Looking at Movies provides students with all the tools they need to become perceptive viewers of film, including the most sophisticated... Read Full Overview

In using the work looking in the title of his introductory college-level film text, Barsam (emeritus, film studies, Hunter College) hopes to demonstrate that students need to actively examine relationships of form and content in cinema. Primarily focused on introducing film analysis,... Read Full Overview

In using the work looking in the title of his introductory college-level film text, Barsam (emeritus, film studies, Hunter College) hopes to demonstrate that students need to actively examine relationships of form and content in cinema. Primarily focused on introducing film analysis,... Read Full Overview