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| A History of Narrative Film, Fourth Edition
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Edition: 4
Author: David A. Cook
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date: 2004-01-01
ISBN-10: 0393978680
ISBN-13: 9780393978681
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Sophisticated in its analytical content, current and comprehensive in its coverage of all aspects of film and filmmaking, and informed throughout by fascinating historical and cultural contexts, A History of Narrative Film is widely acknowledged to be the definitive text in the field. The Fourth Edition adds an entire chapter on computer-generated imaging, updates filmographies for nearly all living directors mentioned in the text, and includes major new sections that both revisit old content and introduce contemporary trends and movements.
Informative and easy reading book
| Customer Rating: | | I purchased this book for my "20th Century Cinema" class in College. I liked it enough to keep it. |
good reading to organize your mind about cinema
| Customer Rating: | Very well organized but could have more information in each item.
Gives a good overview of the history of cinema and about names who had a role in it |
Oi!! Could you go in a straight line just once?
| Customer Rating: | | This book has a ton of information; but I challenge you to extract that information without pulling your hair out first. It was a required text for class and I dreaded every assignment from it. It has pages that are well organized and communicate information and interest very well. But, it also has pages and pages and pages that read like a first draft or outline, complete with unexplained tangents. The author and his editors have such a thorough knowledge of the subject that they miss the numerous and illogical side trips they make in the text. Side trips would be fine if the core message were clear. To be a truly effective teaching tool or an efficient reference, this book needs to be overhauled, restructured, redesigned, and re-indexed. |
More like a boring textbook than a "novel".
| Customer Rating: | | I'm not quite sure why someone else reported that this book is like a novel. It is, quite in fact, the opposite. The author, David A. Cook, presents the information in a very historical fashion, giving the title to this book it's appropraite meaning. The book in no way tries to make the history of narrative film interesting. The definitions of mise-en-scene and montage, for example, were described rather poorly and hardly helped the reader understand their true meaning. One thing the author does provide is a very complete and thorough look at cinema, all most to the point where it is a struggle to remember all the names and their associations. It becomes even more of a challenge when the author uses unnecessary complex words and sentence structures in his descriptions. While I do enjoy how the book serves as an encyclopedia of sorts for providing vast information on narrative film, I would have liked to have seen the information presented in a more tangible and less complex format. |
Reads like a novel
| Customer Rating: | This book reads like a novel rather than like a textbook. The writing is charming and the content is fascinating. To whomever criticised the daunting size of the book, I say this: Use whatever you want. Students should learn to filter what they read and separate the essential from the trivial. This is a reference volume, not a capsule.
I was amazed that one reviewer prefers a more tangible and less complex format for this book. I just pray that the reviewer meant no real disrespect. This is a history book man, not a comic book. Don't expect this book to fascinate your five-year old niece. As far as history books go, it is accurate, to the point, and interesting. Mise-en-scene and montage? This book contains, good, comprehensible definitions of mise-en-scene and montage. Perhaps you need to read the book carefully. Or recommend another volume that is better, why don't you? |
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