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James Monaco

Author of How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory

19+ Works 1,055 Members 5 Reviews

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Works by James Monaco

How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory (1977) 830 copies, 4 reviews

The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette (1976) 59 copies

American Film Now: The People, the Power, the Money, the Movies (1979) 39 copies

Encyclopedia of Film (1991) 33 copies

Alain Resnais (1978) 21 copies

The Connoisseur's Guide to the Movies (1985) 14 copies, 1 review

Media culture: Television, radio, records, books, magazines, newspapers, movies (A Delta book) (1978) 11 copies

The Virgin Film Guide: First (1992) 10 copies

Movie Guide (1992) 8 copies

Virgin International Encyclopedia of Film (1992) 8 copies

The dictionary of new media (1999) 8 copies

Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers (1978) 4 copies

Who's Who in American Film Now (1981) 3 copies

Books about film : a bibliographical checklist 2 copies

How To Read a Film: Technology: Image & Sound: Enhanced and Expanded 1 copy

Bir Film Nasıl Okunur?: Sinema Dili, Tarihi ve Kuramı (2021) 1 copy

Yeni Dalga (Truffaut - Godard - Chabrol - Rohmer - Rivette) (2017) 1 copy

A standard glossary for film criticism 1 copy

Celebrity: Who Gets it, How They Use it, Why it Works 1 copy

Associated Works

Elokuvan lukukirja (1981) 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1942
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Occupations: film historian
film critic
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The Connoisseur's Guide to the Movies by James Monaco

https://archive.org/details/connoisseursguid00mona

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lulaa | Apr 4, 2022 |

How To Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond by James Monaco

Informative.

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dstephenc759 | 3 other reviews | Jan 20, 2021 |

How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond by James Monaco

I have read all of the fairly thick How to Read a Film by James Monaco. I don't believe that one can learn to read a film from this volume. I believe that its only merit is to introduce a few buzzwords or important names and to list a few hundred books that one might read to further the cinematic experience. For those buzzwords and the bibliography I have given the work one star instead of half a one.

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Mr.Durick | 3 other reviews | Dec 16, 2013 |

Jak číst film : Svět filmu, médií a multimédií by James Monaco

http://www.literarky.cz/?p=clanek&id=1615

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ciganik | 3 other reviews | Jan 10, 2007 |

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Best Books on Film (1)

Awards

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Richard Wall Memorial Award

American Film Now: The People, the Power, the Money, the Movies (Special Jury Prize – Special Jury Prize – 1980)

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Works: 19
Also by: 1
Members: 1,055
Popularity: #24,420
Rating: ½ 3.4

Reviews: 5
ISBNs: 58
Languages: 5

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