The Oxford Guide to Film Studies

The Oxford Guide to Film Studies represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date critical guide to the study of film explaining all the significant theories, debates, and approaches to the study of film. Organized in three sections: Approaches; Hollywood and the World; and World Cinema a host of the worlds leading experts outline the major debates in the subject in such topics as diverse as psychoanalysis and film, audience studies and cinema, postmodernism in the cinema, the Hollywood star system, film acting and film music as well as such areas of growing interest as gay and lesbian criticism, cultural studies and audience studies and postcolonial theory. The book also includes `readings illustrating the variety of theoretical approaches, sections on further reading , chapter summaries, and is illustrated throughout.