This handout is more focused on writing about film than on visual literacy, and it discusses different approaches to film (film history, ideological analysis, cultural studies/national …

Reviews analyze the effectiveness of the plot, theme, acting, direction, special effects, musical effects, cinematography, and all other elements that created the movie. There are qualities …

Anything repeated more than a few times in a film. A motif can be visual (an image or cinematic technique), sonic (a sound or piece of music), or rhetorical (a word, phrase, metaphor, etc.).

A film is something we can read just as carefully and consciously as a book or poem. Thus, the first step to being a good film reader is to watch with pen and notebook (or writing journal) in …

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Making Sense of Film offers a place for students and teachers to begin working with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence.

Introduction to Film Studies by Jill Nelmes. (Recommended with supporting materials supplied) analyze a variety of films as examples of visual art and write critically about them from various …