Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts

Description

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide 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 fourth edition, the book includes new topical entries such as: * CGI * Convergence * Cult cinema * Digital cinema/Post-digital cinema * Dogme 95* Movement-image/Time-image * Quota quickies *3-D technology

Author description

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), French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics (2010).

Table of contents

Acknowledgements List of Key Concepts Key Concepts Bibliography Index of Films Name Index Subject Index