Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts, Paperback

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is essential reading 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 fifth edition, the book includes entries on topics such as:

• Acting
• Audience
• CGI
• Convergence
• Cult cinema
• Digitisation and globalization
• Distribution
• Experimental film
• Transnational cinema
• World cinemas

About the Author:

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) and French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics (2010).