Language of Cinema (Book of Words S) - Softcover

Jackson, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857542320 ISBN 13: 9781857542325

Publisher: Carcanet Press, 1998

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From the Back Cover:

At the time of its birth a century ago, the cinema was greeted as a kind of universal language. This universal language soon developed a special language of its own, a professional jargon made of words borrowed from theatre, factory and laboratory, plundered from other arts and other nations, or coined in the heat of film-making. The Language of Cinema provides a fascinating set of paths into this rich argot, sampling some 2000 words associated with the technology, business and skills of film-making, from the A and B roll printing to Z-movies. Informative for the non-specialist film-buff and film-goer, entertaining for film professionals, The Language of Cinema is essential reading for anyone interested in how moving pictures have changed the way we speak, write and read as well as the way we see.

About the Author:

KEVIN JACKSON has wide experience of television and radio as producer, writer and presenter. He was associate arts editor of the Independent and is currently film critic for the Independent on Sunday and a freelance writer, broadcaster and lecturer. For Carcanet he edited 'The Humphrey Jennings Film Reader' (1993). He also edited 'The Oxford Book of Money' (1995) and his most recent title is 'Letters of Introduction' (Carcanet, 2004)

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1857542320
• ISBN 13: 9781857542325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304