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Writing About Movies

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Writing About Movies is a dual-purpose guide combining practical advice on academic writing with a concise introduction to film form, theory, and analysis. It offers clear, accessible instruction tailored specifically for film students.
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Ideal for students and enthusiasts of film studies seeking a comprehensive yet approachable writing guide focused on cinema.

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The only writing guide a film student will ever need.

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Writing About Movies is two books in one: a handy guide to the process of academic writing and a brief but thorough introduction to the basics of film form, film theory, and film analysis.

Clear, accessible, and surprisingly affordable, it’s the only writing guide a student of film will ever need.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393664904

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 October 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Fifth Edition

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 241g

Pages: 280

About the Author

Karen Gocsik is director of the Warren College Writing Program at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches first-year composition and a graduate-level training course for the program’s teaching assistants.Β  Professor Gocsik previously taught first-year writing at Dartmouth College, where she was also Executive Director of the Writing & Rhetoric Program. In 2012, Professor Gocsik was nationally recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the "300 Best Professors in America."

Dave Monahan (M.F.A., Columbia University) is Associate Professor and Chair of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His work as a writer, director, or editor includes Ringo (2005), Monkey Junction (2005), Prime Time (1996), and Angels Watching Over Me (1993). His work has been screened internationally in over fifty film festivals and has earned numerous awards, including the New Line Cinema Award for Most Original Film (Prime Time) and the Seattle International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short Film (Ringo).

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