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Teach Yourself Film Studies is
an invaluable reference book for both Film Studies students
and film buffs. It gives a chronological history of
cinema and film with an analysis of the different genres
of films and directors, from Westerns to Sci-Fi and
from Hitchcock to Tarantino. Techniques and effects
are fully discussed and explained to give an insight
and understanding of this fascinating media.
The book gives an overview of the key
areas in film studies which includes aesthetics, narrative,
genres and documentary films. This new edition also
includes an expanded section concerning film studies
on the Internet. It ends by uncovering the secrets of
film reviewing and the conventions reviewers adopt when
they write about and evaluate films.
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understand the key concepts