[READ] Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Fi

<b> </b>Focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. <b> </b> <b>KEY TOPICS: </b>The contemporary film industry, the major studios, and the interplay between business and aesthetics well as blockbusters, new technologies, the film industry, and current box office trends. <b> </b> <b> </b>Anyone interested in film (movie buffs); anyone who wants to go into the film industry; Introduction to Film