Reading the Silver Screen
- Author: Thomas C. Foster
- Narrator: Sean Pratt
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 23:27:14
Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film.
No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frightened, elated, moved, and thrilled. We expect magic. While we’re being exhilarated and terrified, our minds are also processing data of all sorts—visual, linguistic, auditory, spatial—to collaborate in the construction of meaning.
Thomas C. Foster’s Reading the Silver Screen will show movie buffs, students of film, and even aspiring screenwriters and directors how to transition from merely being viewers to becoming accomplished readers of this great medium. Beginning with the grammar of film, Foster demonstrates how every art form has a grammar, a set of practices and if-then propositions that amount to rules. He goes on to explain how the language of film enables movies to communicate the purpose behind their stories and the messages they are striving to convey to audiences by following and occasionally breaking these rules.
Using the investigative approach readers love in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster examines this grammar of film through various classic and current movies both foreign and domestic, with special recourse to the “AFI 100 Years-100 Movies” lists. The categories are idiosyncratic yet revealing.
In Reading the Silver Screen, readers will gain the expertise and confidence to glean all they can from the movies they love.
Chapters
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001 Reading The Silver Screen
Duration: 16s -
002 Preface
Duration: 20min -
003 Introduction
Duration: 43min -
004 Chapter 01
Duration: 23min -
005 Chapter 02
Duration: 30min -
006 Chapter 03
Duration: 36min -
007 Chapter 04
Duration: 21min -
008 Chapter 05
Duration: 16min -
009 Chapter 06
Duration: 29min -
010 Chapter 07
Duration: 23min -
011 Chapter 08
Duration: 26min -
012 Chapter 09
Duration: 22min -
013 Chapter 10
Duration: 33min -
014 Interlude
Duration: 13min -
015 Chapter 11
Duration: 28min -
016 Chapter 12
Duration: 32min -
017 Chapter 13
Duration: 51min -
018 Chapter 14
Duration: 40min -
019 Chapter 15
Duration: 37min -
020 Chapter 16
Duration: 29min