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Understanding Movies 101 -- A Video Course on Movie Viewing and Criticism

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These videos comprise an "intro to film" course for any student.   While most film courses use textbooks--actual books--it makes more sense to me to use the medium of film for that purpose. That's video. And so you can learn from these free videos that say exactly the same thing as the $150 film textbooks.
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Understanding Movies 101 -- What High Camera Angles Usually Mean
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Understanding Movies 101 -- What High Camera Angles Usually Mean

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Understanding Movies 101 -- How Low-Angle Shots Create Meaning
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Understanding Movies 101 -- How Low-Angle Shots Create Meaning

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Understanding Movies 101 -- Why Tilted Shots Appear in Films
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Understanding Movies 101 -- Why Tilted Shots Appear in Films

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Understanding Movies 101 -- Close-Ups and Close Shots
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Understanding Movies 101 -- Close-Ups and Close Shots

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Understanding Movies 101 -- How Movies Show the Passing of Time: Fades, Wipes, Dissolves
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Understanding Movies 101 -- How Movies Show the Passing of Time: Fades, Wipes, Dissolves

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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Overhead Shots Mean
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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Overhead Shots Mean

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Understanding Movies 101 -- Long Shots and Extreme Long Shots
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Understanding Movies 101 -- Long Shots and Extreme Long Shots

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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Extreme Close Shots Accomplish
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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Extreme Close Shots Accomplish

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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Cuts in Films are For
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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Cuts in Films are For

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Understanding Movies -- Looking at Movies as Paintings or Photos
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Understanding Movies -- Looking at Movies as Paintings or Photos

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Understanding Movies 101 -- Sound in Movies: Some Basics
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Understanding Movies 101 -- Sound in Movies: Some Basics

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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Zoom Ins and Zoom Outs Mean
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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Zoom Ins and Zoom Outs Mean

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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Zoom Ins and Zoom Outs Mean
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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Zoom Ins and Zoom Outs Mean

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Understanding Movies 101 -- Character Positioning, Part 1
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Understanding Movies 101 -- Character Positioning, Part 1

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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Closed Forms Are
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Understanding Movies 101 -- What Closed Forms Are

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Why Modern Movies Use Black-and-White
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Why Modern Movies Use Black-and-White

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The 180-Degree Flip -- Why It Matters to Movie-Watchers
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The 180-Degree Flip -- Why It Matters to Movie-Watchers

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The Auteur Theory of Film -- Is it Right or Wrong?
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The Auteur Theory of Film -- Is it Right or Wrong?

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Understanding Movies 101 -- The Two-Shot
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Understanding Movies 101 -- The Two-Shot

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Understanding Movies 101 -- Reaction Shots
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Understanding Movies 101 -- Reaction Shots

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Are All War Movies Really Pro-War? (Understanding Movies 101)
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Are All War Movies Really Pro-War? (Understanding Movies 101)

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The Styles of Film: From Neo-Realism to Avant-Garde -- A Brief Introduction
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The Styles of Film: From Neo-Realism to Avant-Garde -- A Brief Introduction

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The Voiceover Narrator -- What Makes It Work Well?
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The Voiceover Narrator -- What Makes It Work Well?

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Open Forms in Movies -- What They Are and Why They Matter
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Open Forms in Movies -- What They Are and Why They Matter

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The Best Books on Movies -- Roger Ebert (Episode 1)
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The Best Books on Movies -- Roger Ebert (Episode 1)

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You Get to Teach a Film Class. What SEVEN Movies Would You Use in It?
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You Get to Teach a Film Class. What SEVEN Movies Would You Use in It?

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Character Positioning -- Positioning with Three or More Characters (Episode 2)
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Character Positioning -- Positioning with Three or More Characters (Episode 2)

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Character Types in The Karate Kid (1984)
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Character Types in The Karate Kid (1984)

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Character Contrasts, and the Contrast Principle in Film
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Character Contrasts, and the Contrast Principle in Film

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The Great Directors' Masterpieces -- These Were Left Off Studiobinder's List?!?
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The Great Directors' Masterpieces -- These Were Left Off Studiobinder's List?!?

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The Best Westerns Ever -- My Top 20 List!
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The Best Westerns Ever -- My Top 20 List!

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Here's a Massive Problem that Confronts All Movie Critics, Including You!
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Here's a Massive Problem that Confronts All Movie Critics, Including You!

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My Top 15 Favorite Shots in "12 Angry Men"
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My Top 15 Favorite Shots in "12 Angry Men"

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The Dissolves in 'Vertigo' -- What They Teach Us about the Art of Filmmaking
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The Dissolves in 'Vertigo' -- What They Teach Us about the Art of Filmmaking

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"Paths of Glory" Analysis -- On Stanley Kubrick's Early Masterpiece -- A Professor's Perspective
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"Paths of Glory" Analysis -- On Stanley Kubrick's Early Masterpiece -- A Professor's Perspective