Film Studies: Critical Approaches

The most up-to-date critical guide available, Film Studies: Critical Approaches covers all the significant theories, debates, and approaches to the subject. A team of international experts provides a clear and comprehensive overview of all the major theoretical and critical approaches involved in film analysis, including detailed coverage of established critical traditions--such as semiotics, feminism, and psychoanalysis--as well as important new areas of study such as film audiences and reception, queer theory, and identity politics. Chapter summaries and further reading lists help students to assimilate the material. Ideal for courses in film criticism and textual analysis, Film Studies: Critical Approaches guides students through the maze of theory to the heart of the subject.

• Film Art: An Introduction
• Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)
• Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)
• Celluloid Mirrors: Hollywood and American Society Since 1945 (Harbrace Books on America Since 1945)
• Science and Ethics: Can Science Help Us Make Wise Moral Judgments?
• Introducing Film (Hodder Arnold Publication)
• Writing About Movies (Fourth Edition)
• Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
• The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition With Seven New Chapters
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media