Teach Yourself Film Studies

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Teach Yourself Film Studies offers an unpretentious method for learning how to analyze, understand, and evaluate films. It discusses the most recent developments in film scholarship, with in-depth discussion of contemporary films.

introduction: 'to study the cinema: what an absurd idea!'/film aesthetics: formalism and realism/film structure: narrative and narration/film authorship: the director as auteur/film genres: defining the typical film/the non-fiction film: five types of documentary/the reception of film: the art and profession of film reviewing/taking it further/film studies on the internet

Warren Buckland is a senior lecturer in film studies at Oxford Brookes University.

Warren Buckland is a senior lecturer in film studies at Oxford Brookes University.

Imprint: McGraw-Hill
Distributor: The McGraw-Hill Companies
Publication Date: 08-09-2008
Pages: 240
Measurements: 7.800in X 5.100in X 0.540in X 0.452lb