Anything repeated more than a few times in a film. A motif can be visual (an image or cinematic technique), sonic (a sound or piece of music), or rhetorical (a word, phrase, metaphor, etc.).

This handout is more focused on writing about film than on visual literacy, and it discusses different approaches to film (film history, ideological analysis, cultural studies/national cinemas, and auteur …

thusiasm for film art is no longer as hopeful as it used to be. This time of uncertainty calls into question the traditional cinema industry's future since it emphasizes how flexible the medium is and how it …

Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Non-Fiction Texts. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 2006. Print.

A film is something we can read just as carefully and consciously as a book or poem. Thus, the first step to being a good film reader is to watch with pen and notebook (or writing journal) in hand, jotting …

In perhaps no other great movie does the sound “lead” the picture as it does here. The film’s much-lauded “musical” structure, its use of syncopation, elaborate aural cues, and overlapping dialogue: all …

Mar 30, 2023 · streaming films. The 2023 Hollywood Diversity Report: Part 1 Film — the tenth in a series of annual reports — examines relationships between diversity and the bottom line in an industry in …