Almost everything you need to know in a single essential guide

Viewing a film is only fifty percent the fun. The real joy originates from arguing about any of it afterwards in the pub or over the journey home. But have you ever felt you had a need to know a bit more?

This book offers a concise introduction to the appreciation and study of film. This second release starts with an examination of early film theory before analysing how movies are put jointly ‘ framing, functionality, setting, outfit and editing. It then explores a number of approaches taken up to film during the last half hundred years ‘ the auteur theory, structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer theory with a new section on Marxism. There are also overviews on superstars, genres, national cinemas and film actions from all over the world.

With this reserve in your pocket you can gasp as directors break the 30′ guideline, marvel as Oedipus complexes are resolved, shudder as you become aware of your own voyeurism and tell your metteur en sc’ne from your mise en sc’ne. Going to the cinema may never end up being the same again…