This is an A-Z of the key critical terms in film studies, and aims to make film texts and analysis more accessible to the student. The entries include explanations of familiar concepts such as "realism" and "history", as well as covering more sophisticated constructs like "scophilia" and "gesturality". The text is aimed not just at the European film industry, but takes many of its entries from non-European and American cinema. It also includes terms related to the fields of practical film and video work. It is organized alphabetically with cross-references to related terms, and should be a useful study aid for all students of the cinema.
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"...covers genres, movements, theories and key film production terms with in-depth essays. -- Luce
"...provides a welcome addition to the plethora of film encyclopedias." -- Choice --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"...provides a welcome addition to the plethora of film encyclopedias." -- Choice --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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This review is from: Key Concepts in Cinema Studies (Paperback)
This book seems to be the best cinema studies reference book, so far, on the market. It does cover most definitions from different film theories and cinema studies briefly, yet precisely. It does not have all of the film studies' essential vocabulary, but it has most of it. Numerous examples are also supplied with every definition or argument. I should say, though, that the format could have beed better [easier to access]. But, other than that, this book is the perfect guide to your film studies. NOTE: This book has nothing to do with language of filmmaking and its process [I thought I should mention that, just in case...]
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absence/presence (see also apparatus) A first definition: cinema makes absence presence; what is absent is made present. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unmatched shots, classic narrative cinema, fetish star, spectator positioning, feminist film theory, modernist cinema, dominant cinema, queer cinema, filmic text, montage editing, total theory, underground cinema, political cinema, mirror phase, politique des auteurs, feminist film theorists, anamorphic lens, unified being, mainstream cinema, textual operations, ideological operations, eyeline match, parallel editing, auteur theory, cinematic apparatus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Law of the Father, United Kingdom, Alfred Hitchcock, Second World War, Cold War, Free Cinema, First World War, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey, Soviet Union, New York, John Ford, Marilyn Monroe, Real Order, United Artists, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplin, Mildred Pierce, Sigmund Freud, Alain Resnais, Bette Davis, James Dean New!
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absence/presence (see also apparatus) A first definition: cinema makes absence presence; what is absent is made present. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unmatched shots, classic narrative cinema, fetish star, spectator positioning, feminist film theory, modernist cinema, dominant cinema, queer cinema, filmic text, montage editing, total theory, underground cinema, political cinema, mirror phase, politique des auteurs, feminist film theorists, anamorphic lens, unified being, mainstream cinema, textual operations, ideological operations, eyeline match, parallel editing, auteur theory, cinematic apparatus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Law of the Father, United Kingdom, Alfred Hitchcock, Second World War, Cold War, Free Cinema, First World War, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey, Soviet Union, New York, John Ford, Marilyn Monroe, Real Order, United Artists, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplin, Mildred Pierce, Sigmund Freud, Alain Resnais, Bette Davis, James Dean New!
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