Film Analysis : A Norton Reader. This item is unavailable.Film Analysis : A Norton Reader

Fifty essays on fifty films—by a who’s-who of film studies.

Film Analysis offers concise analyses of fifty diverse and historically significant films—each written exclusively for the text by a leading scholar. Written with the undergraduate in mind, the essays are clear, readable, and great models for students to follow in helping them to hone their own writing. The Second Edition includes six new essays, a new, detailed guide to writing film analysis, and an extensive, up-to-date glossary of critical film terms.

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).