Film: The Essential Study (1st e - 2009)

Film: The Essential Study Guide Providing a key resource to new students, Film: The Essential Study Guide introduces students to all the skills they will need to learn to succeed on a film studies course. This succinct, accessible guide covers key topics such as: • using the library • online research and resources • viewing skills • how to watch and study foreign language films • essay writing • presentation skills • referencing and plagiarism • practical filmmaking. Including exercises and examples, Film: The Essential Study Guide helps film students understand how study skills are applicable to their learning and gives them the tools to flourish in their degree. Ruth Doughty is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Portsmouth University. Her specific areas of research are Black American cinema, film music and films that explore national guilt in a post-9/11 context. She has recently co-edited TheContinuumCompanion to Sound and Film in the Visual Media. She has published articles on Kassovitz’s La Haine and von Trier’s Manderlay. At present she is co-authoring a book on Film Theory for Palgrave Macmillan. Deborah Shaw is a Reader in Film Studies at Portsmouth University. Her research area is Latin American Cinema, and she has published numerous articles in this field. She has also published Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Ten Key Films(Continuum, 2003) and is the editor of Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market(Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Film: The Essential Study Guide Edited by Ruth Doughty and Deborah Shaw First published 2009 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2009 Ruth Doughty and Deborah Shaw for editorial matter and selection; individual chapters, the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record has been requested ISBN 0-203-00292-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0–415–43700–8 (pbk) ISBN10: 0–203–00292–X (ebk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–43700–4 (pbk) ISBN13: 978–0–203–00292–6 (ebk) ... - tailieumienphi.vn