The film text that puts the student experience—and student analysis—first
The best-selling film appreciation text on the market, Looking at Movies succeeds by building on students’ enthusiasm for screened entertainment. It introduces students to film studies by starting with the movies they know and love before guiding them to more serious film analysis—with a robust set of video and interactive resources to support them along the way.
Features of the Eighth Edition
The Eighth Edition reflects the shifting film and educational landscapes, with revisions that respond to changes in streaming media, new digital filmmaking techniques, and the move toward hybrid and online classes.
A new chapter: “Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Movies”
This chapter prepares students to encounter these evolving genres, including a discussion on persuasive vs. propaganda films, expanded coverage of animation, a new section on anime, and a new analysis of Native American visual artist Sky Hopinka’s Jáaji Approx.
Tools that prepare students for changes in media and streaming today
A new Streaming Checklist provides tips for how to watch films for serious analysis on any device.
New "Practicing” exercises invite students to identify and actively practice filmmaking techniques.
Interactives—more than double the number in the previous edition— get students to explore film elements (like lighting, sound, editing, composition, and color).
The movies students know and love
Looking at Movies introduces students to film analysis by starting with familiar films that they know and love—including dozens of new films like Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Everything Everywhere All at Once. Model analyses and video tutorials in every chapter then prepare students to do their own film analysis.
Meet the Author
Dave Monahan
(M.F.A., Columbia University) is a Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His filmmaking work as a writer, director, and editor has been screened internationally in over one hundred film festivals and has earned numerous awards, including the New Line Cinema Award for Most Original Film and the Seattle International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short Film.
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