LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, you should be able to
- understand the defining characteristics that distinguish movies from other forms of art.
- understand how and why most of the formal mechanisms of a movie remain invisible to casual viewers.
- explain the difference between implicit and explicit meaning, and understand how the different levels of movie meaning contribute to interpretive analysis.
- understand the differences between formal analysis and the types of analysis that explore the relationship between culture and the movies.