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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  1. 59 -

    Ballet mécanique

    1924, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 1030 new

    Un chien andalou

    1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check
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    The Critic

    1963, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 536 -

    La Cucaracha

    1934, 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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    Entr'acte

    1924, in 9 top lists Check
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    Film

    1965, in 0 top lists Check
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    Freedom Comes High

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Goon Show

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 384 -

    The Great Train Robbery

    1903, in 11 top lists Check
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    The Heart of an Indian

    1912, in 0 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

    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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    Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma

    1994, 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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    Kino-pravda no. 1

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 10

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 11

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 12

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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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

    1923, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 15

    1923, in 1 top list Check
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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...

    1924, in 2 top lists Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 2

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 20 - Pionerskaia pravda

    1924, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda....

    1925, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 22 - Krestianskaia Kino-pravda

    1925, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 23 - Radio pravda

    1925, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 3

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 4

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 5

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 6

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 7

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 8

    1922, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 9

    1922, in 1 top list 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
  43. 655 -

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  44. 689 -

    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

    1905, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 496 -

    Le royaume des fées

    1903 — a.k.a. The Kingdom of the Fairies, in 2 top lists Check
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    Silly Symphonies Souvenirs

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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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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