Film Art: An Introduction with Tutorial CD-ROM

This book goes through the basics into the intermediate stages of understanding film. The pages are bright and the text is very interesting. I read most of this textbook for fun. The specific reference films are good ones so you won't mind watching them(which I highly suggest anyway). The pacing is great and the topics covered include film art and how to understand what you're watching as well as some technical aspects. I learned quite a bit in the 1st chapter alone - this is what a textbook should be like!

Great very good thank you

This is a nice tool for helping you begin to understand the many complexities of what it takes to make a movie. A nice resource to have but a little bare bones in the descriptive qualities. It's goal is to be a mile wide and an inch deep with information, just enough to get someone interested in the field but not enough to be all inclusive. The book is dated at this point as there are new versions of the text out.

Was as expected

Textbook for class. Some good stuff in their. Kinda expensive though. I only used it a few times and wish i rented it.

Recommended by my professor.I transferred my major from international business to documentary studies, so my professor told me to get it just for starting.I think it's good.Although it is a second hand book, it has a good quality.

Great quality!! nothing was marked which was great! It took longer than i thought to get here though... but besides that it is great!

Film Art came in excellent condition, in a timely manner. This edition was one edition older than the edition stocked at the student bookstore, and was $100 cheaper. Sorry authors, but putting out a new edition just to make more money is not right. Thanks, Amazon.

Great book for studying however i've switched to digital PDFs for my studies so its very heavy by comparisonheres a link to a taster of the book[...]

This book is absolutely required reading for any serious student of cinema. From the business end to technicalities of production such as style, editing and details of mise en scène, it's all here with wonderful examples from many eras and

this book is a must for all film students, even though it isn't the current edition it is such an invaluable source

ok

Package said cd-rom was included, but did not receive it. Otherwise, great quality book.