An innovative approach to film studies that integrates cultural, critical, and technical knowledge with practical teaching tools
A superior art program features hundreds of images selected from significant, popular, and thought-provoking films to visually reinforce the techniques, concepts, and traditions discussed throughout the text
Visually engaging pedagogical features that help students understand and analyse cinematic concepts. Including:
Chapter-opening and part-opening vignettes. New vignettes cover contemporary films like La La Land, Moonlight, The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Film in Focus essays provide close analyses of specific films,
Form in Action boxes with image-by-image analyses give students a close look at how the formal concepts they read about translate onscreen
Viewing Cue prompts ask students to consider how the book's concepts can be applied

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Dozens of brand New Examples - coverage of recent, student-accessible films both big and small from a variety of genres, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ex Machina, Moonlight, Captain America: Civil War, Creed, Mad Max: Fury Road and more
A Heavily Revised History Chapter - now placed in Part 1, the history coverage has been updated, streamlined, and made more relevant to the chapters that follow
History Close up Boxes Highlight Underrepresented Groups spotlighting individual women and minorities whose contributions have sometimes gone under-acknowledged in more traditional historical narratives.