The glossary is worth the purchase price alone, covering succinct and accurate definitions of all the key terms needed in A/S film and higher. The layout is clear and more logical than most. Overall, it manages to cover notoriously difficult areas as thoroughly and accessibly as any other text that I have seen, and better than most - well worth a look for A/S film: two thumbs up! -- The Lecturer (NATFHE journal) 20031001 Overall, it manages to cover notoriously difficult areas as thoroughly and accessibly as any other text, and better than most - well worth a look for A/S film: two thumbs up! -- The Lecturer 20031017
Nathan Abrahms, University of Wales, Bangor, UK Ian Bell, West Hertfordshire College, UK Jan Udris, Middlesex University and Birkbeck College, UK
Early cinema and film form; the language of film; mainstream and alternative film form; Hollywood cinema; cinema, audiences and society; films, spectatorship and meaning; genre; stars; authorship; British cinema; world cinema and national film movements; alternative cinema and other film styles; film technology; production, distribution and exhibition; cinema, the media and globalisation.