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Abrams, Bell & Udris — Studying Film

Abrams, Bell & Udris

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Abrams, Bell & Udris, Studying Film.

Good for

Not yet written up. The measured coverage below says what this book is dense on; the judgement about when to reach for it is still to come.

In the library

Held in Reel, the local research library of scanned and indexed film books. 24 parts, 1,972 indexed passages. Page numbering is unverified.

Cite passages from this book as stf <page> — for example stf 214.

Strongest on

Measured, not guessed. Each figure is how much denser this book is on a concept than the library average — so common words don't crowd out real specialisms.

Iconography — 4.3× the library average (22 passages)
Continuity — 2.1× the library average (17 passages)
Commerce — 1.9× the library average (272 passages)
Themes — 1.6× the library average (99 passages)

Go on, then

source Aaron Baker — A Companion to Martin Scorsese Aaron Baker (ed.) (Wiley Blackwell)
source Barsam & Monahan — Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film Barsam and Monahan: the most current of the introductions, strong on sound, genre as industry, and the MacGuffin.
source Boggs & Petrie — The Art of Watching Films Boggs and Petrie's classroom text: plain analytical questions, a working glossary, and the flat/round and static/dynamic character pairs.
source Bruce Block — The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media Bruce Block's practitioner's grammar of the image: contrast and affinity, the visual components, and story structure drawn as a graph.
source Christopher Kenworthy — Shoot Like Scorsese Christopher Kenworthy (Michael Wiese Productions)
source David Bordwell — Narration in the Fiction Film Bordwell's theory of narration. Only the Soviet montage chapter is in the library — read the shelf mark before citing.