Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies

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...