Frameworks: An Introduction to Film Studies

by Thomas E. Valasek

Frameworks sets out to teach both the concepts and the skills beginning students need to become more literate film viewers. Lessons are designed to answer four essential How do films tell a story? How do films reveal characters? How do films depict physical reality? How do films inform, persuade, and indoctrinate? Each of these questions offers a different "framework" for film study, a different way to look at and analyze film.

464 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 1992

Reviews

[wolfacid · Rating 3 out of 5]

i hope this guy is happy that I actually read his book
it was pretty helpful actually
a little dated but i used the stuff that universally applies thankfully