James Monaco's How to Read a Film

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"Monaco once again looks at film from many vantage points, as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to other narrative media such as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, the book discusses the elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning, and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate."

Full Title: How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond

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    4 Little Girls

    1997, in 1 top list Check
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    60 Minutes

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    American Dream

    1990, in 2 top lists Check
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    An American Family

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 48 -

    The Ascent of Man

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
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    La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...

    1975 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part I, in 8 top lists Check
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    La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...

    1976 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part II, in 6 top lists Check
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    La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...

    1979 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part III, in 6 top lists Check
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    Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt

    1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check
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    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  11. 120 -

    British Sounds

    1970 — a.k.a. See You at Mao, in 2 top lists Check
  12. 125 -

    Buena Vista Social Club

    1999, in 3 top lists Check
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    Le chagrin et la pitié

    1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check
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    Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

    1927, in 5 top lists Check
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    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
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    Christo in Paris

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)

    1961 — a.k.a. Chronicle of a Summer, in 8 top lists Check
  18. 168 -

    The Civil War

    1990, in 3 top lists Check
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    Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    Cosmos

    1980, in 2 top lists Check
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    Daguerreotypes

    1975, in 2 top lists Check
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    Dont Look Back

    1967 — a.k.a. Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, in 10 top lists Check
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    Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

    1894, in 1 top list Check
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    Empire

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
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    Encounters at the End of the World

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
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    Eyes on the Prize

    1987, in 1 top list Check
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    Fahrenheit 9/11

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
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    Gimme Shelter

    1970, in 8 top lists Check
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    Grey Gardens

    1975, in 10 top lists Check
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    Grizzly Man

    2005, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Hamptons

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
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    Harlan County U.S.A.

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
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    Hearts and Minds

    1974, in 7 top lists Check
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    High School

    1968, in 4 top lists Check
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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: Fatale beauté

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: La monnaie de l'absolu

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers

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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: Les signes parmi nous

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: Toutes les histoires

    1989, in 0 top lists Check
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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule

    1989, in 0 top lists Check
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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une vague nouvelle

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios...

    1968 — a.k.a. The Hour of the Furnaces, in 9 top lists Check
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    Hospital

    1970, in 5 top lists Check
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    An Inconvenient Truth

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Incredible Machine

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre

    1994 — a.k.a. JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December, in 0 top lists Check
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    Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
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    King Corn

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda....

    1925, in 1 top list Check
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