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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Ballet mécanique
1924, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Critic
1963, in 0 top lists Check -
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Entr'acte
1924, in 9 top lists Check -
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Film
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
1894, in 1 top list Check -
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Freedom Comes High
1943, in 0 top lists Check -
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Vormittagsspuk
1928 — a.k.a. Ghosts Before Breakfast, in 1 top list Check -
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The Goon Show
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The Great Train Robbery
1903, in 11 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: Seul le cinéma
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: Une vague nouvelle
1999, in 0 top lists Check -
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Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers
1999, in 0 top lists Check -
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Histoire(s) du cinéma: Les signes parmi nous
1999, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Heart of an Indian
1912, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le royaume des fées
1903 — a.k.a. Fairyland; or, the Kingdom of the Fairies, in 2 top lists Check -
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Kino-pravda no. 1
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Kino-pravda no. 2
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Kino-pravda no. 3
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Kino-pravda no. 4
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Kino-pravda no. 5
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Kino-pravda no. 6
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Kino-pravda no. 7
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Kino-pravda no. 8
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Kino-pravda no. 9
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Kino-pravda no. 10
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Kino-pravda no. 11
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Kino-pravda no. 12
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Kino-pravda no. 13 - Vchera, segodnia, zavtra....
1922 — a.k.a. Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution, in 1 top list Check -
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Kino-pravda no. 14
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Kino-pravda no. 15
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Kino-pravda no. 16 - Vesenniaia Kino-pravda....
1923 — a.k.a. Kino Pravda No. 16: Spring Kino-Pravda. A Picturesque, Lyrical Newsreel, in 1 top list Check -
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Kino-pravda no. 17
1923 — a.k.a. Kino-Pravda No. 17: For the First Soviet Agricoltural, Handicraft, and Industrial Exhibition, in 1 top list Check -
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Kino-pravda no. 18 - Probeg kinoapparata v...
1924 — a.k.a. Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie Camera Race Over 299 Meters and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality, in 1 top list Check -
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Kino-pravda no. 19 - Chernoe more - Ledovityi...
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Kino-pravda no. 20 - Pionerskaia pravda
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Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda....
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Kino-pravda no. 22 - Krestianskaia Kino-pravda
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Kino-pravda no. 23 - Radio pravda
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La Cucaracha
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La sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon
1895 — a.k.a. Leaving the Factory, in 10 top lists Check -
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Life of an American Fireman
1903, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Lonedale Operator
1911, in 1 top list Check -
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912, in 8 top lists Check -
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Now
1965, in 5 top lists Check -
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Partie de campagne
1946 — a.k.a. A Day in the Country, in 13 top lists Check -
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Rescued by Rover
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Silly Symphonies Souvenirs
2001, in 0 top lists Check
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