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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories and production terms, this is a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.
Now fully revised and updated for its fifth edition, the book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as: film production; distribution and exhibition; digitisation and globalisation and new audience consumption; experimental cinema; acting and performance; audience studies and reception theory; along with expanded coverage on: world cinemas and the growth of transnational cinema and global film-making.
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Preface, how to use the book and acknowledgements List of key concepts THE KEY CONCEPTS Bibliography Index of films Name index Subject index
Info autore
Susan Hayward is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Exeter. Her publications include Luc Besson (1998), French National Cinema (second edition, Routledge, 2005), Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign (2004), Les Diaboliques (2005), Nikita (2010) and French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics (2010).
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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories and production terms, this is a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.
Testo aggiuntivo
‘Every film student would be well advised to have a copy of the revised and updated version of Susan Hayward’s Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts next to them as they progress through their course. It offers succinct and well-informed definitions of key terms within the field as well as providing a range of further sources for readers to pursue their own research interests.’
Dr Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK
