Understanding Movies (12th Edition) [Paperback] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
0205737544 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Updated in a new 12th edition , this book is organized around the elements of film and provides readers valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences.
This book engages readers in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films. From Slumdog Millionaire to Transformers. this book provides readers with a new way of looking at films that are familiar to them through contemporary coverage
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- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Pearson; 12 edition (January 31, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0205737544
- ISBN-13: 978-0205737543
- Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Has the beleaguered American student proletariat finally had Too Much of inflated textbook prices and planned obsolescence? At the time of this writing, the 12th (Transformer cover) edition of Louis Giannetti's UNDERSTANDING MOVIES has only had about a month on the shelves and has garnered only a few reviews, mostly quite negative, and mostly assaulting the ethics of releasing yet another updated volume as opposed to critiquing the text per se. This review may have a similar "meta" flavor but I hope to offer some potentially useful facts:
-- The Eleventh Edition (Spiderman cover) has a retail price about the same as the new 12th. Yet Amazon discounts it more, making it significantly cheaper (alas, though, used copies are scarcer and selling for pretty close to new prices).
-- Nonetheless, the 12th edition has almost fifty FEWER pages than the 11th! Spend more, get less? I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want the 12th.
-- The textbook publisher may have pushed one time too often in this recessionary era because the prior (again, 11th) edition is not yet three full years old.
-- I defy anyone to compare the 12th, 11th, 10th (Sean Penn cover) or even 9th (Russell Crowe/Gladiator) editions and tell me that the gap between new/latest and very good condition/several generations ago is all THAT significant that it justifies such a quantum increase in price.
-- Frank Hoffman of Philadelphia, my Comment notwithstanding, made some very good points in 2007 about how contemporary students are captive audiences. But, I would add, only if the instructor insists that all students buy the utmost latest. Open up earlier options and the price will crash! E.g.
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