A Level Film Studies: Essentials

Introduction: This is Film Studies
Part I: Film Form and Analysis
Chapter 1: Mise en scène
Chapter 2: Cinematography
Chapter 3: Editing
Chapter 4: Sound
Chapter 5: Performance
Part II: Theoretical Approaches and Critical Debates
Chapter 6: Narrative and Genre
Chapter 7: Representation and Ideology
Chapter 8: Spectatorship and Audience Studies
Chapter 9: Authorship
Chapter 10: Historical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Part III: Hollywood and US Cinema
Chapter 11: Classic Hollywood, 1930-1960
Chapter 12: New Hollywood, 1961-1990
Chapter 13: Contemporary American Cinema
Part IV: National Cinemas, Global Cinema, and Arthouse Film
Chapter 14: Contemporary British Cinema
Chapter 15: European Film
Chapter 16: Global Film
Part V: Further Varieties of Film Experience
Chapter 17: Silent Cinema
Chapter 18: Experimental Film
Chapter 19: Documentary Film: Theory and Practice
Part VI: Understanding Film through Creative Practice
Chapter 20: Researching and Constructing a Short Film: Narrative Construction
Index

Sarah Casey Benyahia is Head of Film Studies at Colchester Sixth Form College. She is the author of Crime (2011), 'Between Place and Non-Place: Disrupting the Categorizations of the Past in Ida' in S. Allen and K. Møllegaard (eds), Narratives of Place in Literature and Film (2019), and co-author of Doing Film Studies (2012).
John White is the author of Westerns (2011), European Art Cinema (2017), and The Contemporary Western: An American Genre Post-9/11 (2019). He is co-editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films (2014).
Freddie Gaffney is a lecturer, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He is co-author of AS Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, 2nd edn (2008) and On Screenwriting (2009).