Grammar of the Shot, 3rd Edition

Introduction

For most of us living in the 21^st Century, the majority of our daily experiences are inseparable from interactions with electronic or digital media. We are constantly communicating with someone or something or being communicated to by someone or something. Texting or speaking via mobile telephones, watching television, using the internet, listening to the radio, playing networked video games, reading books, newspapers and magazines, looking at billboards and advertisements, going to the movies, and on and on it goes. Our ability to understand these communications and gain further meaning from them is reliant upon our education – can we read, write, and speak a language, recognize images and sounds, decipher symbols, etc.?

This education, ...