Until recently film has been impractical and expensive to teach, but television and video have provided unprecedented opportunities. Not only is it becoming possible for everyone to make use of a library of films on video, subjecting them to close evaluative study, but also, with the increasing availability of video cameras in schools and colleges, it is becoming possible for everyone to learn the language of this richly expressive form by using it. Through an engaged analysis of the beginnings of film, the nature of expression, the conventions of film and television, the development of narrative, and modern film theories, Robert Watson provides an aesthetic framework for film study which has implications and numerous suggestions for practical creative work.
Author(s): Robert Watson B
Edition: 1
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 196
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of Figures......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Series Editor's Preface......Page 10
Education: The Legacy of the 1960s......Page 14
The Beginning of Film......Page 24
Conventional Narrative Sequence......Page 30
From Snapshots to the Long Take......Page 56
Language, Genres and Television......Page 108
Film in the Narrative Arts......Page 144
Bibliography......Page 164
Index......Page 182
