About Book:

      The first edition of Beginning Film Studies appeared in 2008. While its structure is largely replicated here, this second edition has afforded opportunities in other respects for significant revision and updating. New or expanded case studies have been introduced to register and evaluate emerging areas of interest for film studies, including the role played increasingly by social media in film publicity (Chapter 5) and in the fashioning of star personas (Chapter 7). By extending coverage of subjects such as the significance of characters in cinematic narrative (Chapter 4), this edition of the book also offers fuller assessment than   did its predecessor of the impact upon film studies of cognitive approaches. Finally, film references and further reading suggestion have been updated throughout.