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Table of Contents

PART ONE.- Hollywood cinema and beyond.- PART TWO.- The star system.- PART THREE.- Technologies.- PART FOUR.- World Cinemas.- PART FIVE.- Genre.- PART SIX.- Authorship and cinema.- PART SEVEN.- Developments in theory.

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The third edition of this authoritative introduction to cinema addresses cinema history, key genres, national cinemas and issues such as technology and authorship, with contributions by leading international film historians and scholars.

About the Author

Pam Cook worked at the British Film Institute, later being appointed the UK's first Professor of European Film and Media at the University of Southampton in 1998. She retired in February 2006 to become Professor Emeritus in Film.

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With excellent essays, close textual analysis of films and further reading lists from some of the leading lights in the area, the book has proved an invaluable asset for those negotiating their way through the minefield of ideas and conflicting theories that make up the study of film...This weighty, yet still surprisingly succinct tome also has an excellent sense of design allowing the reader to dip in and out and pull out the relevant information as they wish...obvious must for any student of film...excellent resource.
*Laurence Boyce*

With excellent essays, close textual analysis of films and further reading lists from some of the leading lights in the area, the book has proved an invaluable asset for those negotiating their way through the minefield of ideas and conflicting theories that make up the study of film...This weighty, yet still surprisingly succinct tome also has an excellent sense of design allowing the reader to dip in and out and pull out the relevant information as they wish...obvious must for any student of film...excellent resource. -- Films and Festivals * Laurence Boyce *

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