A Level Film Studies The Essential Introduction

Introduction: This is film studies

Part I - Film form and analysis

Chapter 1 - Mise en scène

Chapter 2 - Cinematography

Chapter 3 - Editing

Chapter 4 - Sound

Chapter 5 - Performance

Part II - Theoretical approaches and critical debates

Chapter 6 - Narrative and genre

Chapter 7 - Representation and ideology

Chapter 8 - Spectatorship

Chapter 9 - Authorship

Chapter 10 - Historical, social, political, and cultural contexts

Part III - Hollywood and US cinema

Chapter 11 - Classical Hollywood, 1930-1960

Chapter 12 - New Hollywood, 1961-1990

Chapter 13 - American film post-2012

Part IV - National cinemas, European cinema, and global cinema

Chapter 14 - British film since 1995

Chapter 15 - European film

Chapter 16 - Global cinema

Part V - Further varieties of film experience

Chapter 17 - Silent cinema

Chapter 18 - Experimental film

Chapter 19 - Documentary film: theory and practice

Part VI - Understanding film through creative practice

Chapter 20 - Researching and constructing a short film

Index