Synopses & Reviews
Written with undergraduate readers in mind, these essays cover the central issues raised in today's cinema courses and provide students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and film-analysis skills. also includes a helpful introduction and an extensive glossary. Already half the price of competing texts when purchased alone, can be packaged at 50 percent off with either or .
Synopsis
offers concise analyses--each written exclusively for this text by a leading scholar--of forty-four diverse, historically significant films.
About the Author
Jeffrey Geiger (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) teaches at the University of Essex, where he established the Centre for Film Studies. He is the author of Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination (2007) and American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation (2011). He has co-edited, with Karin Littau, Cinematicity in Media History (2013).R. L. Rutsky (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) teaches in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. He is the author of High Technè: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman (1999), and co-editor of Strategies for Theory: From Marx to Madonna (2003) and Consumption in an Age of Information (2005).