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"If I were about to start teaching an undergraduate (or graduate) course in film studies, this is the book I would prescribe. If an interested layman asked me, 'What is a good text book for me to use in coming to terms with cinema?', this is the one I'd recommend. Beginning film studies is most elegantly and accessibly written. As well as being wholly literate, it is also frequently witty...this is a book which anyone could take pleasure in reading, for its style as well as for its wealth of information and for its judicious discriminations."-- Brian McFarlane, editor of the Encyclopaedia of British Cinema
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While the study of film has nevre been more popular, the subject still lacks an introductory text that is both comprehensive and compact, combining depth with clarity, scholarship with lightness of touch. Beginning film studies attempts to answer this need. Written with verve and wit, it charts for readers new to the field the complex landscape of twentieth and twenty-first century film studies. As well as evaluating significant trends in the discipline's past and present, it suggests directions for film studies in the future when cinema will increasingly be challenged by other forms of visual culture. Beginning film studies is wide-ranging, moving outwards from detailed consideration of film stylistics to explore questions of narrative, authorship, genre, the star and ideology. Later chapters on production and consumption assess the discipline's recent 'geographical' turn. Discussion is illustrated by references to film cultures as diverse as classical Hollywood, the French 'New Wave' and contemporary Hong Kong, India and Latin America; more than a little is said about Johnny Depp. The book is 'interactive' throughout, with the reader encouraged to reflect critically upon each chapters' theories and methods and to apply these to his or her film viewing. Comprehensive lists of secondary reading and online materials make Beginning film studies the ideal resource for students keen to enter this dynamic and culturally vibrant subject.
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