Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies

An introduction to film studies—as it’s actually done by scholars and critics

Just as film imitates society, society imitates film. Engaging Cinema teaches film as critics see it—not just as a collection of aesthetic choices, but as an art form influenced by and responding to the world around us. Consistently informed by its key thesis—that a film’s social context is just as important as its formal makeup—Engaging Cinema covers all the necessary concepts of an intro to film book while placin...