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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

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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.

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!