Frameworks: An Introduction to Film Studies

Frameworks sets out to teach both the concepts and the skills beginning students need to become more literate film viewers. Lessons are designed to answer four essential questions: How do films tell a story? How do films reveal characters? How do films depict physical reality? How do films inform, persuade, and indoctrinate? Each of these questions offers a different "framework" for film study, a different way to look at and analyze film.