Film Studies, Second Edition
An Introduction

Very informative and easy to read. I’ve watched a lot of YouTube videos on film analysis and had a pretty good grasp on everything in this textbook. This was helpful with terminology and with the history of the art form.......more

Film Studies: An Introduction begins with the assumption that all narrative films express some kind of meaning, presumably intentional on the part of the filmmakers. The purpose of this book, which is an introductory-level post-secondary text book in film studies, provides the basic concepts for ana......more

I'm looking for a short and inexpensive textbook for my course on film adaptation, and this sounded like a possibility. The author spends most of book giving extended definitions with examples of various technical aspects of film. In general, I thought the book was mostly a primer for writing about......more

A very baseline book for film studies and film analysis. I had to read it for my film studies class and it definitely assisted in class discussion and helped expand my knowledge of the terminology of film. I think I will take away a lot of things from this book as I continue to delve into my film ex......more

Exactly what you'd expect from an educational book. I cannot watch my series without analysing and thinking things like "hey that's a creative soundbridge" anymore. Lack of actual pictures made theory sometimes hard to grasp.......more