How long does it take to read How to Read a Film?
James Monaco, Nick Drjuchin, David Lindroth
How to Read a Film by James Monaco, Nick Drjuchin, David Lindroth takes about 9 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 46 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1977. 533 pages, about 146,575 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia explores the medium as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to such other narrative media as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, Monaco discusses those elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate." "In a key departure from the book's previous editions, the new and still-evolving digital context of film is now emphasized throughout How to Read a Film. A new chapter on multimedia brings media criticism into the twenty-first century with a thorough discussion of topics like virtual reality, cyberspace, and the proximity of both to film. Monaco has likewise doubled the size and scope of his "Film and Media: A Chronology" appendix. The book also features a new introduction, an expanded bibliography, and hundreds of illustrative black-and-white film stills and diagrams. It is a must for all film students, media buffs, and movie fans."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Cinéma, Filmkunst, Filmtheorie, Filmgeschiedenis (wetenschap), Massamedia
