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Cinema Studies
The Key Concepts
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Now in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms.
This fully revised and updated book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as film and the environmental crisis; streaming and new audience consumption; diversity and intersectionality; questions related to race and representation; the Black Lives Matter movement; and New Wave Cinemas of Eastern European countries. Further new entries include accented/exilic cinema, border-cinema, the oppositional gaze, sonic sound and Black westerns. Existing entries have been updated, including discussion of #MeToo, and more contemporary film examples have been added throughout.
This is a must-have guide for any student starting out on this fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.
About the Author:
Susan Hayward is Emerita Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Exeter. Her publications include Luc Besson (1998), French National Cinema (second edition, 2005), Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign (2004), Les Diaboliques (2005), Nikita (2010), French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics (2010), Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere – Doughnut Economics and Film Theory and Practice (2020) and Ecology Documentaries: Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics (2021).
See the publisher website: Routledge
> From the same author:
The Routledge Companion to European Cinema (2024)
Dir. Gábor Gergely and Susan Hayward
Film Ecology (2021)
Defending the Biosphere - Doughnut Economics and Film Theory and Practice
Subject: Theory
Ecology Documentaries (2021)
Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics
Subject: Genre > Documentary
French Costume Drama of the 1950s (2010)
Fashioning Politics in Film
The Films of Luc Besson (2007)
Master of Spectacle
Dir. Susan Hayward and Philip Powrie
Subject: Director > Luc Besson
> On a related topic:
Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville (2025)
Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media
Subject: Theory
A Chronology of Film (2025)
A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen
Subject: Theory
The Attractions of the Moving Image (2025)
Essays on History, Theory, and the Avant-Garde
by Tom Gunning
Subject: Theory
Contemporary Screen Ethics (2025)
Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew
Dir. Lucy Bolton, David Martin-Jones and Robert Sinnerbrink
Subject: Theory
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