This is the essential guide for anyone interested in film. Now in its second edition, the text has been completely revised and expanded to meet the needs of today's students and film enthusiasts. Some 150 key genres, movements, theories and production terms are explained and analyzed with depth and clarity. Entries include:
* auteur theory
* Blaxploitation
* British New Wave
* feminist film theory
* intertextuality
* method acting
* pornography
* Third World Cinema
* Vampire movies
A bibliography of essential writings in cinema studies completes an authoritative yet accessible guide to what is at once a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.