TY - BOOK AU - Nelmes,Jill TI - An introduction to film studies SN - 9780415582575 (hbk.) : AV - PN1994 .I537 2011 U1 - 791.43 NEL PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Motion pictures KW - Evaluation KW - Film criticism KW - Motion picture plays KW - History and criticism KW - Performing Arts KW - ukslc KW - Media studies KW - thema KW - Films, cinema N1 - Previous ed.: 2007; Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part one: Cinema as institution: technology, industry and audience -- 1.The industrial contexts of film production. Searle Kochbert -- 2.Contemporary film technology. WIlliam Whittington -- Part two: Approaches to studying film: form and text. Patrick Phillips -- 4.Film form and narrative. Susan Speidel -- 5.Spectator, audience and response. Patrick Phillips -- 6.Cinematic authorship and the film auteur. Paul Watson -- 7.Star studies: text, pleasure and identity -- Part three: studying genre -- 8.Approaches to film genre - taxonomy/genericity/metaphor. Paul Watson -- 9.The documentary form. Paul Ward -- 10.The language of animation. Paul Wells -- Part IV.Cinema, identity and the politics of representation. Jill Nelmes -- 12.Lesbian and gay cinema. Chris Jones -- 13.Spectacle, stereotypes and filsm of the African diaspora. Terri Francis -- Part V: Cinema, nation and national identity -- 14.British cinema. Laurence Napper -- 15.Indian cinema. Lalitha Gapalan -- 16.Latin American cinema. Linda Craig -- 17.The Soviet montage cinema of the 1920s. Mark Joyce -- Case Studies N2 - This is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. It provides a guide to the main concepts used to analyse the film industry and film texts, and also introduces some of the world's key national cinemas ER -