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Film Stills Methodologies: A Pedagogical Assignment
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 41, Number 1, Fall 2001
- pp. 91-108
- 10.1353/cj.2001.0022
- Article
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This essay describes an innovative film studies assignment in which students explore still photography and Hollywood cinema. The author and his freshman cinema studies students learned by doing—they created their own film stills after Cindy Sherman, employing frame analysis, semiotics, and Barthes's concept of the "third meaning" along the way.