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Visible Fictions

Cinema - Television - Video

by John Ellis

Type
Studies
Subject
Theory
Keywords
aesthetics, semiotics
Publishing date
2015
Publisher
Routledge
1st publishing
1992
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 310 pages
7 x 9 ½ inches (18 x 24 cm)
ISBN
978-1-138-83504-7
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Book Presentation:
This revised edition of a standard textbook combines an examination of the cinema and television industries with a detailed analysis of their aesthetic and semiotic characteristics. John Ellis draws on his experience as an independent television producer to provide a comprehensive and challenging overview of the place of film, television and video in our daily lives and their future prospects in a changing media landscape.

About the Author:
Now an independent TV producer, John Ellis has been a lecturer in film studies, an editor of and contributor to Screen magazine, and also co-wrote Language and Materialism (RKP 1978).

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