Abstract
The frame is central to film. How a filmmaker frames a shot and edits those frames together influences what the audience sees, how what is seen comes to be known, and much more. The frame limns the visual field drawing the eye and the “I” into the film’s action, its story, and what it hopes the viewer will take from the film. Of course, as film theorists and critics have shown, there is never one thing a viewer takes from watching a movie.
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Greteman, A.J., Burke, K.J. (2014). Popular Movies that Teach. In: Trier-Bieniek, A., Leavy, P. (eds) Gender & Pop Culture. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-575-5_6
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