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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) 5th Edition
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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is essential reading 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 entries on topics such as:
- Acting
- Audience
- CGI
- Convergence
- Cult cinema
- Digitisation and globalization
- Distribution
- Experimental film
- Transnational cinema
- World cinemas
- ISBN-101138665770
- ISBN-13978-1138665774
- Edition5th
- Publication dateAugust 10, 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.43 x 1.42 x 8.5 inches
- Print length616 pages
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‘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
About the Author
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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- Publisher : Routledge; 5th edition (August 10, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 616 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1138665770
- ISBN-13 : 978-1138665774
- Item Weight : 1.65 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.43 x 1.42 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,961,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,222 in Movie History & Criticism
- #6,246 in Communication & Media Studies
- #16,756 in Sociology Reference
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- Basil SealReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2018
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A great update to the previous edition - an essential book of reference for Film and Media students.
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This book is a unique masterpiece listing the fundamental concepts of cinema. Unfortunately, the author manifests a lack of sufficient familiarity with the world of cinema. For example, she correctly qualifies Brigitte Bardot as a sex-goddess comparable to sex-symbols such as Marilyn Monroe or Ava Gardner; but she then identifies them with Sophia Loren who, unknown to her, is one of the greatest twentieth century movie actresses, dramatic (Blood Feud), tragic (Two Women) , melodramatic (I Girasoli) etc. Italian cinema also remains limited to neo-realism, ignoring Michelangelo Antonioni with Monica Vitti's l'Avventura, or Federico Fellini, which she categorises erroneously as neo-realists. Italian cinema as been one of the greatest moments of the twentieth century art history. Furthermore, why twelve pages on psychoanalysis and not a word about cogntive theory, a discipline that is much more scientific, actual and relevant as shown by Gregory Currie?