WHY LEARN HOW TO READ FILM?

• Emotional experience
• Entertainment
• Learn the story
• Visually connect with characters
• Historic events
• Perspective -> human condition
• Relate to the characters

IS CINEMA OR FILM A TEXT?

• Story, characters, setting, sound, images.
  

Cinema is a visual art form. Cinema is not literature. A film is not a novel.

• However, a film is a text, just as a play, poem or novel is a text.
• Although the storyline is essential, when reading a film you must be able to examine, interpret and analyse the visual elements and style.