The Oxford guide to film studies / edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson ; consultant editors, Richard Dyer, E. Ann Kaplan, Paul Willemen

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to film studies / Richard Dyer -- The film text and film form / Robert P. Kolker -- Film acting / Paul Mcdonald -- Film costume / Pamela Church Gibson -- Film music / Claudia Gorbman -- Classic film theory and semiotics / Antony Easthope -- Formalism and neo-formalism / Ian Christie -- Impressionism, surrealism and film theory / Robert B. Ray -- Film and psychoanalysis / Barbara Creed -- Post-structuralism and deconstruction / Peter Brunette -- Film and postmodernism / John Hill -- Marxism and film / Chuck Kleinhans -- Feminism and film / Patricia White -- Gay and lesbian criticism / Anneke Smelik -- Queer theory / Alexander Doty -- Pornography / Laura Kipnis -- Race, ethnicity, and film / Robyn Wiegman -- Film and cultural identity / Rey Chow -- Film and history / Dudley Andrew -- Sociology and film / Andrew Tudor -- Cultural studies and film / Graeme Turner -- Film audiences / Jostein Gripsrud -- Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics and film interpretation / Noel King -- American cinema and film history / John Belton -- History and cinema technology / Duncan Petrie -- Hollywood as industry / Douglas Gomery -- Early American film / Tom Gunning -- Classical Hollywood film and melodrama / E. Ann Kaplan -- Post-classical Hollywood / Peter Kramer -- Authorship and Hollywood / Stephen Crofts -- Genre and Hollywood / Tom Ryall -- The star system and Hollywood / Jeremy G. Butler -- Hollywood film and society / Douglas Kellner -- Film policy : Hollywood and beyond / Albert Moran -- Hollywood and the world / Toby Miller -- Concepts of national cinema / Stephen Crofts -- Modernism and the avant-gardes / Murray Smith -- Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- The documentary / John Izod and Richard Kilborn -- The animated film / Michael O'Pray -- Issues in European cinema / Ginette Vincendeau -- The avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930 / Ian Christie -- Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realim / Simona Monticelli -- The French nouvelle vague / Jill Forbes -- New German cinema / Ulrike Sieglohr -- East Central European cinema / Daniel J. Goulding -- European film policy and the response to Hollywood / Armand Mattelart -- Directors and stars : Jean Renoir / Keith Reader ; Ingmar Bergman / Chris Darke ; Chantal Akerman / Cathy Fowler ; Pedro Almodóvar / José Arroyo ; Luc Besson / Susan Hayward --Brigitte Bardot / Ginette Vincendeau -- British cinema / Andrew Higson -- Ireland and cinema / Martin McLoone -- Australian cinema / Elizabeth Jacka -- Canadian cinema / Will Straw -- Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake -- Indian cinema / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Chinese cinema / Bérénice Reynaud -- Hong Kong cinema : Discovery and pre-discovery / Stephen Teo ; China and 1997 / N.K. Leung -- Taiwanese new cinema / Kuan-Hsing Chen -- Japanese cinema / Freda Freiberg -- African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike -- South American cinema / Julianne Burton-Carvjal -- Film and changing technologies / Laura Kipris -- Film and television / John Hill.

International experts provide an overview of the main disciplinary approaches to film studies, an explanation of the main concepts and methods involved in film analysis, and a survey of the main issues and debates in the study of film.