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  Beginning Film Studies (Beginnings (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Andrew Dix

  

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  Short Description for Beginning Film StudiesCharts the complex landscape of twentieth and twenty-first century film studies. This title considers film stylistics and explore questions of narrative, authorship, genre, the star and ideology. It includes chapters on production and consumption.
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  • Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 08 July 2008
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Films, Cinema | Film Theory & Criticism
  • ISBN 13: 9780719072550 ISBN 10: 0719072557
  • Sales rank: 210,776

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• Beginning film studies offers the most lucid, thorough and up-to-the-minute introduction to this popular subject. Written with verve and wit, it reviews a wealth of significant trends in the discipline's past and present, and looks ahead to new directions for film studies. The discussions are enlivened by references to film cultures as diverse as 'classical' Hollywood, the French 'New Wave' and India, to stars like Johnny Depp, genres such as noir, romance and action, it also examines more 'geographical' turns such as production and consumption. Each chapter concentrates on the essential elements, and each contains full bibliographies, stop and think sections and lists of appropriate websites. Comprehensive and entertaining, it is sure to take its place alongside the popular and bestselling titles already published in this series.