Companion To Film Theory, a

This book provides an overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal. Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work; represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship; offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology; includes chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future; considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.