Ebook: Stylized Moments: Turning Film Style Into Meaning

Concretely discover meaning in film by decoding the simple, but often invisible, stylistic choices made by directors and the rest of the creative collaborators of cinema. Readers are instructed in the language of film and introduced to interpretive strategies so that all films begin to speak in more meaningful ways, and in turn, viewers' responses become more articulate and persuasive. The logic operating in this book states that interpreters can produce a convincing reading of a film by targeting for analysis particular "stylized moments" (camera placement and movement, lighting, spatial relationships, editing, soundtrack, etc. all which bear meaning), whereby the director has gently or not so gently nudged the audience with these stylized cinematic gestures that, when decoded, unlock significance.