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Performing Arts Reference

The Film Studies Dictionary

by (author) Steve Blandford, Barry Keith Grant & Jim Hillier

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2000
Category
Reference

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780340741917
    Publish Date
    Dec 2000
    List Price
    $43.95

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780340741900
    Publish Date
    Aug 2000
    List Price
    $106.00

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Description

This unique reference work is designed to bridge the gap between guides and dictionaries that are primarily academic and theoretical and those that deal mainly in technical jargon. Above all, it is aimed at students of film and media who are likely to encounter a wide range of specialist language in a variety of places--in film reviews, critical essays, interviews with filmmakers and stars, and academic and Internet publications. The Film Studies Dictionary contains around 1,000 entries ranging from terms that have always puzzled audiences such as "best boy" and "gaffer" to those required by specialist students of film such as "post-colonial theory" and "third cinema." It uses a system of careful cross-referencing and concise and up-to-date references to further reading for exploration.

About the authors

Steve Blandford's profile page

Barry Keith Grant is a professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University. He is the author or editor of twenty books, including 100 Documentary Films (with Jim Hillier, 2009), Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader (2007), Film Genre: Film Iconography to Ideology (2007), Film Genre Reader (2003) and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996), and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He edits the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television series for Wayne State University Press and the New Approaches to Film Genre series for Wiley Blackwell.

Barry Keith Grant's profile page

Jim Hillier's profile page

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