Introduction to film studies

This is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. It provides a guide to the main concepts used to analyse the film industry and film texts, and also introduces some of the world's key national cinemas. The industrial contexts of film production / Searle Kochberg -- Contemporary film technology / William Whittington -- Before getting to the bigger picture / Patrick Phillips -- Film form and narrative / Susan Speidel -- Spectator, audience and response / Patrick Phillips -- Cinematic authorship and the film auteur / Paul Watson -- Star studies: text, pleasure, identity / Paul Watson -- Approaches to film genre: taxonomy/genericity/metaphor / Paul Watson -- The documentary form / Paul Ward -- The language of animation / Paul Wells -- Gender and film / Jill Nelmes -- Lesbian and gay cinema / Chris Jones -- Spectacle, stereotypes and films of the African diaspora / Terri Francis -- British cinema / Lawrence Napper -- Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan -- Latin American cinema / Linda Craig -- The Soviet montage cinema of the 1920's / Mark Joyce