James Monaco's How to Read a Film
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"Monaco once again looks at film from many vantage points, as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to other narrative media such as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, the book discusses the elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning, and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate."
Full Title: How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond
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Alien
1979, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Birds
1963, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Blair Witch Project
1999, in 14 top lists Check -
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992, in 6 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
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Child's Play
1988, in 2 top lists Check -
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Don't Look Now
1973, in 17 top lists Check -
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Dracula
1931, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Exorcist
1973, in 27 top lists Check -
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Fatal Attraction
1987, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Fly
1958, in 4 top lists Check -
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Frankenstein
1931, in 18 top lists Check -
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Friday the 13th
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
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Ganja & Hess
1973 — a.k.a. Black Evil, in 3 top lists Check -
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Vargtimmen
1968 — a.k.a. Hour of the Wolf, in 7 top lists Check -
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996, in 0 top lists Check -
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King Kong
1933, in 26 top lists Check -
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Les diaboliques
1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check -
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
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Persona
1966, in 25 top lists Check -
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Predator
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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Rosemary's Baby
1968, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Shining
1980, in 28 top lists Check -
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007, in 6 top lists Check -
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Targets
1968, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Thing
1982, in 20 top lists Check -
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Michael Jackson: Thriller
1983, in 1 top list Check -
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Vampyr
1932, in 18 top lists Check -
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The War of the Worlds
1953, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Wicker Man
1973, in 13 top lists Check
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