#thomas c foster

[sileana]

“When linguists talk shop, about half the time it sounds like some sort of pornographic code.”

-Thomas C Foster

[studyinglavender]

trying to annotate with more intention. the result is it’s taking me a while to get through what would normally be a quick read, but i’m retaining a lot more information!

[reverie-quotes]

The amazing thing about books is how they have lives of their own. Writers think they know their business when they sit down to compose a new work, and I suppose they do, right up to the moment when the last piece of punctuation gets planted on the final sentence. More often than not, that punctuation is a period. It should be a question mark, though, because what occurs from then on is anybody's guess.

— Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor

[hutaoscoffinn]

Just saw this in a book I’m reading and it’s something that I feel like I need to post this so people can remember it.

Characters are not people

- Thomas C. Foster

[justsimroarks]

Because as Thomas Foster said, dining together = communion.

[backlogbooks]

BFT August Book Photo Challenge | Day Twenty Eight: Books and Music 

Getting ready for college with an educational book and some mountain goats music 

[quotescodex]

'The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.' -Thomas C Foster | Go to Quotes Codex to read more quotes and sayings.

[floralmotif]

What I’m Reading

Tagged by @chiisana-sukima

How to play: Share a photo/screenshot of the cover(s) of the book(s) you’re currently reading. Then tag 8 people and ask them to do the same!

I’m currently visiting my father, so I don’t have much with me. I brought Reading the Silver Screen by Thomas C. Foster with me. I’ve read it before, but it’s a good read if you like film language, and it fits in my purse. I bought it a year or so ago just to see what the guy had to say and it’s pretty neat. I know a lot of the technical reasons why things are the way they are in movies and kind of explains them in a different way much of the time. It’s not bad, it’s interesting and certainly not wrong, just different. It sort of reminds me of meta discussions here sometimes.

This is the only book I brought with me but my dad has a myriad of random historical books if I finish this one before the end of my trip. I’m relatively far in it at this point. 

I planned on mostly working on my screenplay and a couple of editing projects during down time (the projects are slightly more difficult than I expected due to lack of decent chair) so I didn’t bring much. 

It’s a good book. If you like film language and a lot of film/novel comparisons, this one is great. It’s written by a former literature professor and his perspective is interesting. He talks a lot about the difference between novels and film and how different storytelling methods are used. 

It’s also fairly recent, so there’s a lot more references and examples using more recent movies (like Mad Max: Fury Road) which may help some people and it’s fairly up to date on trends and how storytelling tactics are used now-a-days. 

This is slightly less scary for me to tag people for so um... @mittensmorgul, @medeah, @rosewhipped22, @tinkdw, @lost-shoe, @grey2510, @arvit, @theslaughteredpanda if you want to... or anyone else who wants to. It’s kind of fun to get a book out there I probably wouldn’t have talked about otherwise.