"Movies and Methods"

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The paper summarizes "Movies and Methods" Volume I and highlights the main benefits it offers as a resource for film teaching. The paper emphasizes that the way the book was created will never go out of style. The paper then summarizes "Movies and Methods: Volume II" and its focus on the awareness of cinema in our culture. The paper notes that because the first volume was so well received, the second volume needed to live up to that, which it successfully does.

From the Paper:

"Both teachers and students of film would likely welcome this book, even though it was written in 1976. Some things do not go out of date, and even though much has happened since the 1970s there are a lot of classic works on film that are still very worthy of being studied. Because this is the case, books like this one are a good choice for individuals who are studying film. This anthology offers a comprehensive collection of theoretical work found on film up to the date of publication. There are many articles in the book as well, and this is a very good thing because articles like this are often extremely difficult to find. Quite often, the literature dealing with movies and film is scattered through a lot of different publications. This being the case, it is quite possible to overlook something unintentionally and to therefore miss out on an article that would have value to the reader. By putting them all together in a collection, everyone who needs to read the information will be able to easily locate it, and this is something that Bill Nichols provides very well as editor of the work."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Nichols, Bill (1976) Movies and Methods: Vol. I. University of California Press.
• Nichols, Bill (1985) Movies and Methods: Vol. II. University of California Press.

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