A Dictionary of Film Studies

A note of caution: this is a dictionary on “film studies” not “film” in general. There is overlap with general film reference books of course, but the focus here is on film and cinema with entries covering “all aspects of their study within the discipline of film studies, including terms, concepts, and debates within film theory and criticism, national cinemas, international and transnational cinemas, film movements, genres and cycles, film industry organization and practice, and key technical terms”. The specialist nature of the topic can be illustrated with the letter “H”, where we start with Haptic Visuality (embodied spectatorship) “a...