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 Biography
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).
