"When the book first appeared thirty years ago there were few reliable introductions to the subject of film. My intent was to give people the tools to understand how the language of film operates. Our audience then was mainly viewers of film – consumers, not producers. (After all the English title was How to “Read” a Film, not How to “Make” a Film.) But even then we could see a dramatically more democratic future for the medium."
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James Monaco
James F. Monaco (November 15, 1942 – November 25, 2019) was an American film critic, author, publisher, and educator.
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