Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts

by Susan Hayward

Overview

Now in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms.

This fully revised and updated book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as film and the environmental crisis; streaming and new audience consumption; diversity and intersectionality; questions related to race and representation; the Black Lives Matter movement; and New Wave Cinemas of Eastern European countries. Further new entries include accented/exilic cinema, border-cinema, the oppositional gaze, sonic sound and Black westerns. Existing entries have been updated, including discussion of #MeToo, and more contemporary film examples have been added throughout.

This is a must-have guide for any student starting out on this fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367646370
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2022
Series:	Routledge Key Guides
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	682
Sales rank:	262,712
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susan Hayward is Emerita Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Exeter. Her publications include Luc Besson (1998), French National Cinema (second edition, 2005), Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign (2004), Les Diaboliques (2005), Nikita (2010), French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics (2010), Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere - Doughnut Economics and Film Theory and Practice (2020) and Ecology Documentaries: Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics (2021).

Table of Contents

Preface, how to use the book and acknowledgements

List of key concepts

THE KEY CONCEPTS

Bibliography

Index of films

Name index

Subject index

Editorial Reviews

An in-depth glossary that Hayward (French, U. of Exeter) intends to provide students and teachers of film studies, and other people interested in cinema with a useful reference on key theoretical terms and various debates surrounding them. She also provides historical overviews of key genres, film theory, and film movements. The cross-references are extensive. Films and names are each indexed separately from general subjects. No date is noted for the first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

‘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

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