Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Film art and filmmaking: Film as art : creativity, technology, and business -- Film form: The significance of film form ; Narrative form -- Film style: The shot : mise-en-scene ; The shot : cinematography ; The relation of shot to shot : editing ; Sound in the cinema ; Style as a formal system -- Types of film: Film genres ; Documentary, experimental, and animated films -- Critical analysis of films: Film criticism : sample analyses ; Writing a critical analysis of a film -- Film history: Historical changes in film art conventions and choices, tradition and trends.

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. In this new edition, the authors provide an introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, with images throughout the text collected from actual film frames, not from production stills or advertising photographs.