The Moving Image

A User's Manual

Author  Peter B. Kaufman
The Moving Image

The definitive guidebook for using video in modern communication.

Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is video. Americans get their news and information more often from screens and speakers than through any other means. The Moving Image is the first authoritative account of how we have arrived here, together with the first definitive manual to help writers, educators, and publishers use video more effectively. Drawing on decades as an educator, publisher, and producer, MIT’s Peter Kaufman presents new tools, best practices, and community resources for integrating film and sound into media that matters.

Kaufman describes video’s vital role in politics, law, education, and entertainment today, only 130 years since…

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