Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts: 2nd Edition (Key Concepts)

Rating:
Summary: Scholarly, Well Researched, Dense with Theory
Review: Susan Hayward has done a good job putting together a compendium of cinema concepts. Her work is very scholarly and well researched with a good deal of additional references (for further reading.)

Professor Hayward's bio says she is a Professor of French Studies. It shows in her book. If you feel like you haven't had your fill of post modernism, semiotics and structuralist/post structuralist theory, this book will get your diet straight.

This isn't the kind of book you'd just sit down and read from cover to cover. It's more of a reference. My complaint is that the book is a little dry and dense.

However, if you need a reference book on cinema concepts, this is a good choice.