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Encyclopedia of Film Noir

Geoff Mayer, Brian McDonnell “Encyclopedia of Film Noir"
Greenwood Press | 2007-06-30 | ISBN: 0313333068 | 496 pages | PDF | 3,27 MB

When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir is a genre much richer. The authors first examine the debate surrounding the parameters of the genre and the many different ways it is defined. They discuss the Noir City, its setting and backdrop, and also the cultural (WWII) and institutional (the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and the Production Code Administration) influences on the subgenres. An analysis of the low budget and series film noirs provides information on those cult classics. With over 200 entries on films, directors, and actors , the Encyclopedia of Film Noir is the most complete resource for film fans, students, and scholars. Each entry includes: BLDirector BLProducer BLCinematography BLScript BLMusic BLCast BLPlot description BLCritical analysis

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French Cinema: A Student's Guide by Philip Powrie

French Cinema: A Student's Guide by Philip Powrie (Author), Keith Reader (Author)
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication; Student edition (February 12, 2003) | ISBN-10: 0340760044 | PDF | 9 Mb | 224 pages

What are the Cahiers du cinema? Which are the most popular French films? How do you write an essay on a French film? What is a high-angle shot in French? When did more French spectators go to see American films than French films? Hoe do you talk about a short sequence of film?

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Film Structure and the Emotion System by Greg M. Smith

Film Structure and the Emotion System by Greg M. Smith (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 13, 2003) | ISBN-10: 0521817587 | PDF | 1,2 Mb | 230 pages

Synthesizing recent research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology, this study provides a more nuanced understanding of how film evokes emotion. Although the experience of emotion is central to movie-viewing, film studies have not focused on the emotions, relying instead on vague psychoanalytic concepts of desire. This volume describes a grounded approach to analyzing the emotional appeal of a wide variety of films (from Casablanca to Stranger than Paradise, from Renoir to Spielberg), showing how style and narration call upon the viewer's emotion system.

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Studying Film (Studying the Media) by Nathan Abrams

Studying Film (Studying the Media) by Nathan Abrams (Author), Ian Bell (Author), Jan Udris (Author)
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication (September 6, 2001) | ISBN-10: 0340761334 | PDF | 19 Mb | 336 pages

This book offers students an accessible introduction to the study of film. It aims to stimulate students' enjoyment and understanding of a wide range of different types of film, and to give them an awareness of the nature of cinema as a medium, as an art form and as a social and economic institution. It is designed to encourage an understanding of the nature of personal responses to film and help students make use of the critical languages that have been developed to understand the ways in which films and spectators construct meaning. As such, it develops students' sense of the context in which films are produced, disseminated and consumed. Contemporary film is seen in context by tracing its development from 1895 to the present, exploring film production in a variety of countries in a range of styles. Cinema is also placed within the wider context of the media in terms of the growth of multinational conglomerates and increasing globalisation.

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Memory and Popular Film (Inside Popular Film) by Paul Grainge

Memory and Popular Film (Inside Popular Film) by Paul Grainge (Editor)
Publisher: Manchester University Press (September 6, 2003) | ISBN-10: 0719063744 | PDF | 1,3 Mb | 224 pages

Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present. Considering the relationship between official and popular memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to effect memory's contemporary mediation, the book contributes to the growing debate on the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse. By gathering key critics from film studies, American studies and cultural studies, Memory and Popular Film establishes a framework for discussing issues of memory in film and of film as memory. Together with essays on the remembered past in early film marketing, within popular reminiscence, and at film festivals, the book considers memory films such as Forrest Gump, Lone Star, Pleasantville, Rosewood and Jackie Brown.

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The Last Great American Picture Show

The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s (Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition) by Thomas Elsaesser (Editor), Noel King (Editor), Alexander Horwath (Editor)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (May 1, 2004) | ISBN-10: 9053564934 | PDF | 3,6 Mb | 348 pages

The French Connection, The Last Picture Show, M.A.S.H., Harold and Maude--these are only a few of the iconic films made in the United States during the 1970s. Originally considered a "lost generation," the 1970s are increasingly recognized as a crucial turning point in American filmmaking, and many films from the era have resurfaced from oblivion to become a reference for new directorial talents. The Last Great American Picture Show explores this pivotal era in American film history with a collection of essays by scholars and writers that firmly situates the decade as the time of the emergence of "New Hollywood."
Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Peter Bogdanovich, Monte Hellman, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashy, Robert Altman, and James Tobac: these legendary directors developed innovative techniques, gritty aesthetics, and a modern sensibility in American film. Here, contributors compellingly argue that the cinema of today's major directors--Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis--could not have come into existence without the groundbreaking works produced by the directors of the 1970s. A wholly engaging and long-overdue investigation of this important era in American film, The Last Great American Picture Show reveals how the films of the 1970s transformed the American social consciousness and influenced filmmaking worldwide.

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European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood

European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood by Thomas Elsaesser (Author)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (October 1, 2005) | ISBN-10: 9053566023 | PDF | 4,6 Mb | 566 pages

Has European cinema, in the age of globalization, lost contact not only with the world at large, but with its own audiences? Between the thriving festival circuit and the obligatory late-night television slot, is there still a public or a public sphere for European films? Can the cinema be the appropriate medium for a multicultural Europe and its migrating multitudes? Is there a division of representational labor, with Hollywood providing stars and spectacle, the Asian countries exotic color and choreographed action, and Europe a sense of history, place and memory?

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Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery by Per Persson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 28, 2003) | ISBN-10: 052181328X | PDF | 8 Mb | 296 pages

Understanding Cinema analyzes the moving imagery of film and television from a psychological perspective. Per Persson argues that spectators perceive, think, apply knowledge, infer, interpret, feel and make use of knowledge, assumptions, expectations and prejudices when viewing and making sense of film. Drawing psychology and anthropology, he explains how close-ups, editing conventions, character psychology and other cinematic techniques work, and how and why they affect the spectator.

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Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film by Barry Keith Grant

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film by Barry Keith Grant (Author)
Publisher: Schirmer Books; 1 edition (December 8, 2006) | ISBN-10: 0028657918 | PDF | 54 Mb

Grade 9 UpDrawing on authoritative, international contributors, information on film is extensively documented in this set, which is intended as a film-studies staple. The alphabetically arranged volumes are titled as follows: \"Academy AwardsCrime Films\"; \"CriticismIdeology\"; \"Independent FilmRoad Movies\"; and \"Romantic ComedyYugoslavia.\" Subtopics include countries, history, philosophies, and more, with information on individual movies often spread over several entries. Articles range from as few as 5 pages (\"Slapstick comedy\") to 17 pages (\"Italy\"). Contemporary topics, such as \"Gay, lesbian and queer cinema,\" are included along with more-expected entries on \"Teen films\" and \"Cinematography.\" See-also references guide readers to one or more related topics or subtopics, while further-reading suggestions provided after every entry list academic and popular articles and books. The more than 16,000 index entries, with major topics in bold type, make access straightforward. The text is highlighted with photographs varying in size, color, and clarity, along with brief biographies on related figures. While there is a plethora of good publications on film, such as Ephraim Katz\'s single-volume The Film Encyclopedia (HarperCollins, 2005) and his The Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia (2001), this set is more comprehensive and current. Public libraries and secondary schools, especially those with a focus on filmmaking, should plan to include it in their collections.

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The Cinema Effect by Sean Cubitt

The Cinema Effect by Sean Cubitt (Author)
Publisher: The MIT Press (March 1, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0262033127 | PDF | 6,5 Mb | 464 pages

It has been said that all cinema is a special effect. In this highly original examination of time in film Sean Cubitt tries to get at the root of the uncanny effect produced by images and sounds that don\'t quite align with reality. What is it that cinema does? Cubitt proposes a history of images in motion from a digital perspective, for a digital audience. From the viewpoint of art history, an image is discrete, still. How can a moving image--constructed from countless constituent images--even be considered an image?

And where in time is an image in motion located? Cubitt traces the complementary histories of two forms of the image'motion relationship--the stillness of the image combined with the motion of the body (exemplified by what Cubitt calls the "protocinema of railway travel") and the movement of the image combined with the stillness of the body (exemplified by melodrama and the magic lantern). He argues that the magic of cinema arises from the intertwining relations between different kinds of movement, different kinds of time, and different kinds of space. He begins with a discussion of "pioneer cinema," focusing on the contributions of French cinematic pioneers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He then examines the sound cinema of the 1930s, examining film effects in works by Eisenstein, Jean Renoir, and Hollywood's RKO studio. Finally he considers what he calls "post cinema," examining the postwar development of the "spatialization" of time through slow motion, freeze-frame, and steadi-cam techniques. Students of film will find Cubitt's analyses of noncanonical films like Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as enlightening as his fresh takes on such classics as Renoir's Rules of the Game.

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Jean-Luc Godard - Histoire(s) du cinéma [réalisée de 1988 à 1998]

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Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film

704 pages | Publisher: Routledge | 1st edition December 3, 2008 | ISBN: 0415771668 | Rapidshare | 6.5 MB

“ ‘The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film features incisive, illuminating, well-documented essays authored by a wide range of established major players and a new generation of philosophers of film. This book will be a godsend for teachers of the subject at all levels as well as an indispensable reference volume for anyone interested in exploring the invitation to philosophical reflection that the medium of film inexorably extends to us.’ - Nancy Bauer, Tufts University, USA ”

“ ‘This volume distinguishes itself from its competitors by the richness of insight that results from its willingness to acknowledge and explore the sheer variety of ways in which cinema calls for, and can even put in question, the standing interests and concerns of philosophers’.- Stephen Mulhall, New College Oxford ”

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"The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film" is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The "Companion" features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts: issues and concepts; authors and trends; genres; and, film as philosophy.Part one is a comprehensive section examining key concepts, including chapters on acting, censorship, character, depiction, ethics, genre, interpretation, narrative, reception and spectatorship and style. Part two covers authors and scholars of film and significant theories Part three examines genres such as documentary, experimental cinema, horror, comedy and tragedy. Part four includes chapters on key directors such as Tarkovsky, Bergman and Terrence Malick and on particular films including "Memento". Each chapter includes a section of annotated further reading and is cross-referenced to related entries. "The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film" is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy of film, aesthetics and film and cinema studies.

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Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction

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The Oxford History of World Cinema

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The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film

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Quentin Tarantino

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Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology

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Film (Eyewitness Companions)

Film (Eyewitness Companions)
DK publication | 95.1 MB all together | ISBN 0756622039 | PDF | 512 pages | 2006

Not just another film guide-this is a visual road map to the best cinema has to offer. A comprehensive, fun to browse, and easy-to-use source for everything you need to know about movies and the people behind them. From Hollywood to Bollywood, this book's unique approach will explore every aspect of film and provide pointers on how to watch and understand films of different types, styles, and periods.

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The history of film could not possibly be covered in one tome without some sacrifice of contextual insight that will cause the reader to dismiss the resource entirely. There have been past attempts to provide a more comprehensive overview, for example, Liz-Ann Bawden's The Oxford Companion to Film (which has not been updated since its original publication in 1976) and David Thomson's The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Thomson does update his hefty and endlessly fascinating book periodically (the last time in 2004), but his meticulous approach is to provide an alphabetical listing of key contributors to cinema and summarize their work with his own critical eye.

Written and compiled by British film critic Ronald Bergan, the DK Eyewitness Companion book is much more cursory, but the organization is also more amenable to the casual browser looking for a few film factoids. That's because the 500-plus-page soft-cover book mimics the same pleasing graphics, easy-to-follow organization, and abbreviated observations of the extensive Eyewitness guidebook line. This one is divided into six discrete sections - The Story of Cinema, How Movies Are Made, Genres, World Cinema, A-Z of Directors, and Top 100 Movies. Each provides interesting tidbits of a thumbnail variety, especially the first chapter which dares to cover the history of movies in such an expeditious fashion. The second section gives a solid look at the entire process of filmmaking from development to release.

The section on film genres is somewhat more inconsequential, but Bergan's overview of world cinema and its leading directors provides some true nuggets. It's also interesting to see he doesn't offer much praise to actor-directors other than Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen (whom he mistakenly credits for directing Play It Again, Sam - it was Herbert Ross). It seems inevitable that a Top 100 list should be presented, and Bergan's list is as subjective as any other film scholar's. He further conditions his list by including only one film per noted director (so, for example, Hitchcock gets identified for Vertigo and nothing else in his illustrious filmography). The likely candidates are here, but so are some idiosyncratic choices like Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas and Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral. As with any Eyewitness book, there are lots of nicely presented photographs and sidebars to break up the text. This is good browsing material for the more casual film lover.

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Understanding Digital Cinema: A Professional Handbook

Charles S. Swartz "Understanding Digital Cinema: A Professional Handbook"
Focal Press | 2004-10-28 | ISBN: 0240806174 | 336 pages | PDF | 5,9 MB

UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL CINEMA: A PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOK is a comprehensive resource on all aspects of finishing, distributing and displaying film digitally. For technical professionals as well as non-technical decision-makers, the book is a detailed exploration of every component of the process, from mastering to theater management.
* An overview of digital cinema system requirements
* Post production work flow
* Color in digital cinema
* The digital cinema mastering process
* Fundamentals of compression
* Security
* Basics of audio
* Digital distribution
* Digital projection technology
* Theater systems
* The international perspective: Views from Europe, Asia and Latin America
* A realistic assessment of the future of digital cinema

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IFP/Los Angeles Independent Filmmaker's Manual

IFP/Los Angeles Independent Filmmaker's Manual, Second Edition, Second Edition
323 pages | Focal Press; 2 edition (February 4, 2004) | 0240805852 | PDF | 2 Mb

Praise for the second edition: "Having worked with both Nicole and Eden, I can say that no one knows more about indie filmaking. And they share their deep knowledge in this incredible tome." - Doug Liman, Director, Swingers, Go, Bourne Identity "This manual is an powerful tool for anyone wanting to produce or direct a film. Going beyond theory, Eden has put together practical information that can be put to use immediately, from breaking down the script to financing to distribution. Eden is a hands on producer working at the top levels of independent film and an invaluable source for anyone wanting to take the leap and make a film." - Meg LeFauve Praise for the first edition: "If only there'd been a book like this when I was starting out. Heck, I'm glad it exists even at this point in my career, so page-packed with useful info is this indispensable tome. Trust me, first-timers, read it from cover to cover and avoid the pitfalls and hang-ups most of us had to learn firsthand. You hold in your hands the perfect marriage between practical and technical advice, and breezy, entertaining anecdotes. What Nicole and Eden have wrought, let no filmmaker put asunder." -Kevin Smith, writer/director, Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma "...A clear, insightful and commonsense guide for anyone involved in making a low-budget film that is also a labor of love. Unlike most how-to books which provide clinical step-by-step directions on how to do budgets and schedules, this book explores the nuances of the creative process by walking us through the living, breathing experience of line producing." - Denise Mann, Vice-chair, Producer's Program, UCLA

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Yvonne Tasker - Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers

Yvonne Tasker - Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers
(Fifty Key Thinkers)
Routledge | ISBN: 978 0415189736 | 08/03/2002 | English | 464 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers examines the work of some of today's most popular, original and influential cinematic voices from around the world. The subjects of these fifty essays are drawn from such diverse cinematic traditions as Europe cinema, mainstream Hollywood movies, independent American film, Chinese and Japanese cinema. Among those featured in this lively reference are: Luc Besson Joel and Ethan Coen David Cronenberg Julie Dash Hal Hartley David Lynch Martin Scorsese Lars Von Trier Wim WendersThese essays outlines its subject's career, discussing the major films, the genres in which he or she works, references and relationships to other films and filmmakers, and concluding with an assessment of his or her status as an auteur. With each entry supplemented by a filmography, references and suggestions for further reading, this is a guide to modern cinema which students of, or anyone interested in, contemporary film will find indispensable.

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Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation

Barbara Kennedy, "Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation"
Edinburgh University Press | 2003-07-30 | ISBN: 0748617264 | 224 pages | PDF | 13,5 MB

Film theory has for so long focused on sociological, empirical, and psychoanalytic approaches that aesthetic sensibilities seem to have been forgotten. This book puts the emphasis back on film as an art form. Through discussions of Orlando, The English Patient, Romeo and Juliet, Strange Days, and Leon, the book offers a new and creative collusion between Deleuzian philosophy -- specifically Deleuze's ideas about desire, pleasure, sensation, affect, and "becoming-woman" -- and contemporary film studies.

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A Companion to Film Theory

Toby Miller, Robert Stam, "A Companion to Film Theory (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)"
Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 0631206450 | May 28, 2004 | 440 Pages | PDF | 19.1MB

“ This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.

* Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies.
* Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.
* Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology.
* Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future.
* Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.

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$30 Film School : How to write, direct, produce, shoot, edit, distribute, tour with, and sell your own no-budget DIGITAL movie

ISBN: 1592000673 | Title: $30 Film School | Author: Michael W. Dean | Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade | Publication Date: 2003-05-13 | Number Of Pages: 528 | PDF | 12 MB

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Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique
University of California Press; 1 edition (August 2, 2004) | ISBN: 0520238915 | PDF | 299 Pages | 6.36 MB

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Why exactly was Citizen Kane such a revolutionary film? What are the hallmarks of Italian Neorealism? How do directors sew together a smooth scene from five or six different shots? Fabe answers these questions and more in this primer on the narrative structure of filmmaking, which analyzes 14 benchmark movies from D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation to Mike Figgis’s Timecode. (Since each film was selected to represent a significant cinematic movement—expressionism, postmodernism, French New Wave, etc.—the book also doubles as a concise history of film’s most innovative storytellers.) Fabe teaches film theory at the University of California, Berkeley, and her chapters maintain the conversational feel of lecture notes: each one gives some background on and a plot synopsis of the film discussed then provides a close analysis of a particular sequence. Antonio Ricci’s decision to steal in De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief, for example, is broken down to show how moral conflict can be encapsulated in a split second. Fabe’s analysis proves most engaging when it shows how each cinematic element works to add subtext and depth to story and character. Her explication of Hitchcock’s camera work in Notorious, for example, shows how his use of space in a frame could evoke either freedom or claustrophobia.

How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch.

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Studying Film

Nathan Abrams, Ian Bell, Jan Udris "Studying Film (Studying the Media)"
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication (September 6, 2001) | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0340761342 | PDF | 20 MB

This accessible introduction to the study of film aims to stimulate students' enjoyment and understanding of a wide range of different types of film, and to give them an awareness of the nature of cinema as a medium, as an art form, and as a social and economic institution. Contemporary film is seen in context by tracing its development from 1895 to the present, exploring film production in a variety of countries in a range of styles, and placing film next to other media.

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Key Film Texts

Key Film Texts by Graham Roberts, Heather Wallis
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication (April 4, 2002) | 266 pages | ISBN: 0340762276 | PDF | 10.2 MB

Key Film Texts offers students a stimulating introduction to 50 films which they are likely to encounter during their studies. An introductory chapter outlines the core concepts involved in film study. Each entry then provides a guide to production details, information on the film-makers and the institutional context of the film. It explores issues of genre and stardom, the social and historical context, and questions of form and content. The discussion is followed by questions designed to develop students' analytical skills and awareness of the key issues raised by the film. Each entry ends with a list of other similar films to encourage students to broaden their viewing and knowledge of film culture.

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