Cinema studies the key concepts

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface, how to use the book and acknowledgements
List of key concepts
The key concepts
	acting and performance
	action movies
	adaptation
	agency
	anamorphic lens
	animation
	apparatus
	art cinema
	art direction
	aspect ratio
	asynchronization/asynchronous
sound
	audience
	auteur/auteur theory/politique des
auteurs/Cahiers du cinéma
	avant-garde
	Black cinema – UK
	Black cinema, including Blaxploitation movies –
USA
	blockbusters
	B-movies
	Bollywood
	British New Wave
	buddy films
	censorship
	CGI
	cinema nôvo
	cinemascope
	cinematographer/director of
photography
	cinéma-vérité/cinéma direct/direct cinema
	class
	classical Hollywood cinema/ classical narrative cinema
	codes and conventions/classic canons
	colour
	comedy
	continuity editing – see editing
	convergence
	costume dramas/heritage cinema/historical films
	counter-cinema/oppositional cinema
	cross-cutting
	cult cinema
	cut
	day for night
	deconstruction
	deep focus/depth of field
	denotation/connotation
	diegesis/diegetic/non-diegetic/extra- and intra-diegetic
	digital cinema/post-digital cinema
	digitization and globalization
	direct cinema see cinéma-vérité
	director
	discourse
	dissolve/lap-dissolve
	distanciation
	distribution
	documentary
	Dogme 95 manifesto/Dogme films
	dominant/mainstream cinema
	East Asian Cinema
	editing/Soviet montage
	epics
	ethnographic film/gaze
	European cinema/European film financing
	experimental film
	exploitation movies
	eyeline matching
	fade
	fantasy/fantasy films
	female masquerade
	feminist film theory
	film noir
	film theory
	flashback
	Free Cinema (Britain)
	French New Wave/Nouvelle Vague
	French Poetic Realism
	gangster films
	gaze/look
	gender
	genre/sub-genre
	German expressionism
	Germany/New German cinema
	Hays code
	hegemony
	historical films/reconstructions see costume drama
	Hollywood
	Hollywood blacklist
	horror/Gothic horror/Hammer Horror/horror thriller/body horror/vampire movies
	iconography
	ideology
	Imaginary/Symbolic see psychoanalysis
	independent American cinema
	independent cinema
	intertextuality
	Italian neo-realism
	jump cut
	lighting
	melodrama and women’s films
	method acting
	mise-en-abîme
	mise-en-scène
	modernism
	montage see editing Soviet cinema
	motivation
	movement-image/time-image
	music
	musical
	myth
	narrative/narration
	naturalizing
	Oedipal trajectory see psychoanalysis
	180-degree rule
	pornography
	postcolonial theory
	postmodernism
	preferred reading
	producer
	psychoanalysis
	Queer cinema
	quota quickies
	realism
	reception theory see spectator
	road movie
	science-fiction films
	scopophilia/scopic drive/visual pleasure
	seamlessness see editing
	semiology/semiotics/sign and signification
	sequence/sequencing
	setting
	sexuality
	shot/reverse-angle shot
	shots
	social realism
	sound/soundtrack
	Soviet cinema/school
	space and time/spatial and
temporal contiguity
	spectator/spectator-identification/
female spectator
	stars/star system/star as capital value/star as construct/star as deviant/star as cultural value:
sign and fetish/stargazing and performance
	structuralism/post-structuralism
	studio system
	subject/subjectivity
	subjective camera
	surrealism
	suture
	Third Cinema
	30-degree rule
	3-D cinema/stereoscopic imagery
	thriller/psychological thriller
	time-image see movement-image
	tracking shot/travelling shot/dollying shot
	transnational cinema
	transparency/transparence
	underground cinema
	unmatched shots
	vertical integration
	voyeurism/fetishism
	war films
	Westerns
	widescreen
	wipe
	women’s films see melodrama
	World Cinemas/World Cinema/Third World
Cinemas
	zoom
Bibliography
Index of films
Name index
Subject index