Book Title: Contemporary World Cinema

Subtitle: An Introduction to Moving Pictures

Author: James Skidmore

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Book Description: An introduction to film that explores film structure and analysis, with attention being paid to film in its contemporary global context.

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Book Description

Contemporary World Cinema is a free, open access introduction to the art and science of cinema. An adaptation of Moving Pictures. An Introduction to Cinema by Russell Sharman, James Skidmore’s Contemporary World Cinema preserves Sharman’s chapters on the tools and techniques of cinema (mise-en-scène, narrative form, cinematography, editing, sound and acting), and includes a new section on world cinema with an introduction to the concept, case studies of nine films from around the world, as well as an overview of the questions that guide film analysis.

Author Contact: skidmore@uwaterloo.ca.

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This book is a cloned version of Moving Pictures by Russell Sharman, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.

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James Skidmore

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Films, cinema

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Title
Contemporary World Cinema
Author
James Skidmore
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Contemporary World Cinema Copyright © 2022 by James M. Skidmore is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Films, cinema
Publication Date
September 1, 2022