Movies and Meaning - 6th Edition Author:Stephen Prince Updated in a new 6th edition, Movies and Meaning is a comprehensive introduction to the film industry that focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. It examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and pr... more »ocesses by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen.« less