Cinema Studies: The Key ConceptsThis is the essential guide for anyone interested in film. Now in its second edition, the text has been completely revised and expanded to meet the needs of today's students and film enthusiasts. Some 150 key genres, movements, theories and production terms are explained and analyzed with depth and clarity. Entries include:* auteur theory* Blaxploitation* British New Wave* feminist film theory* intertextuality* method acting* pornography* Third World Cinema* Vampire movies. |
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aesthetic African African cinema American audience auteur auteur theory avant-garde becomes Black cinema Blaxploitation Bordwell camera castration character classic Hollywood cinema classic narrative colour concept construct context counter-cinema critics culture debate desire diegesis discourses documentary dominant editing effect entry enunciation example fantasy father female feminist film theory fetishism film industry film noir film-makers flashback Freud function further reading gangster gaze gender genre German German expressionism Hollywood identified ideology jump cut Lacan language lighting look mainstream cinema male child meaning melodrama mirror mirror stage mise-en-scène modernist montage mother movement musical myth narrative cinema object Oedipal trajectory patriarchal perceived political position post-structuralism postcolonial postmodern practices protagonist psychoanalysis Queer cinema realism reality refers relation representation represented scopophilia screen sequence shot social Soviet spectator star structures studio style suture Symbolic Order theatre Third Cinema Third World Cinema thriller tradition unconscious United Western woman women