Now in its seventh edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms.
This fully revised and updated book includes a wealth of new topical entries. These cover emerging technologies and industry trends, such as artificial intelligence, virtual production, streaming, film festivals, mobile cinema, screen tourism, seriality and transmedia storytelling, alongside pressing social and cultural issues, including film and the environmental crisis, diversity and intersectionality, race and representation, and the Black Lives Matter movement. The book also explores New Wave Cinemas of Eastern European countries, as well as further new entries on accented/exilic cinema, border cinema, the oppositional gaze, sonic sound and Black westerns. Existing entries have been updated, and more contemporary film examples have been added throughout.
This is a must-have guide for any student starting out on this fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.