Doing Film Studies

Sarah Casey Benyahia is a teacher of Film and Media Studies. She is the author of Crime (2011), Teaching Contemporary British Cinema (2005) and co-author of several film and media studies text books.Claire Mortimer is a teacher of Media and Film Studies. She is the author of Romantic Comedy (2010) and co-author of AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC (2011).

• Introduction 1. The Canon in Practice 2. The History of the Discipline or How it Became Possible to Study Film 3. The History of the canon: The Development (and deconstruction) of the film studies canon 4. Key Approaches: Genre Theory 5.Competing Approaches: Screen Theory 6.Reading a film 7. Film Studies and Narrative Theories 8. Spectatorship and Audience Studies 9. Creative Engagement 10. Film and Identity 11. Postmodernism and Cultural studies 12. Film as Industry Index