Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) [Hardcover]

Susan Hayward (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415227399 | ISBN-13: 978-0415227391 | Publication Date: September 5, 2000 | Edition: 2

This 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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Key Concepts in Cinema Studies by Susan Hayward must be one of the most useful books ever published on the always expanding subject of cinema studies ... Even if you are familiar with many of the terms you may find it valuable to go through all... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About the Author

Susan Hayward is Professor of French and lectures in French cinema at the University of Exeter. She is the author of French National Cinema (Routledge, 1993).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 552 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (September 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415227399
• ISBN-13: 978-0415227391
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,182,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Scholarly, Well Researched, Dense with Theory, October 29, 2002

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B. Cirelli (Santa Rosa, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts: 2nd Edition (Key Concepts) (Routledge Key Guides) (Paperback)

Susan Hayward has done a good job putting together a compendium of cinema concepts. Her work is very scholarly and well researched with a good deal of additional references (for further reading.)

Professor Hayward's bio says she is a Professor of French Studies. It shows in her book. If you feel like you haven't had your fill of post modernism, semiotics and structuralist/post structuralist theory, this book will get your diet straight.

This isn't the kind of book you'd just sit down and read from cover to cover. It's more of a reference. My complaint is that the book is a little dry and dense.

However, if you need a reference book on cinema concepts, this is a good choice.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference, November 17, 2007

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Elyse Stever "Elyse Marie" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts: 2nd Edition (Key Concepts) (Routledge Key Guides) (Paperback)

I've taken several film studies classes while in college and this book makes an excellent reference guide. The information she provides is to the point, easily accessible and supplements any film class. Sure, it's not a very interesting cover to cover read because it's a reference guide. It will help you when you forget specific terms and vocabulary in film studies, and terms are easy to look up quickly before you get called on in class!