Level Film Studies

Sarah Casey Benyahia currently teaches Film Studies at A level and is an experienced senior examiner. She is the author of several books, including Crime (Routledge, 2011), Doing Film Studies with Claire Mortimer (Routledge, 2013), and Teaching Film and TV Documentary (2008). She has also contributed chapters to Death and Crises in the Hispanic World: Cultural Responses (2020), Narratives of Place in Film and Literature (2018), Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (2013), and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films (Routledge, 2015).John White is the author of British Cinema and a Divided Nation (2021), The Contemporary Western: An American Genre Post-9/11 (2019), European Art Cinema (Routledge, 2017), and Westerns (Routledge, 2011). He co-edited The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films (Routledge, 2015), Fifty Key American Films (Routledge, 2009), and Fifty Key British Films (Routledge, 2008).

• Introduction: This is film studiesPart I - Film form and analysisChapter 1 – Mise en scèneChapter 2 – CinematographyChapter 3 – EditingChapter 4 – SoundChapter 5 – PerformancePart II - Theoretical approaches and critical debatesChapter 6 – Narrative and genreChapter 7 – Representation and ideologyChapter 8 – SpectatorshipChapter 9 – AuthorshipChapter 10 – Historical, social, political, and cultural contextsPart III – Hollywood and US cinemaChapter 11 – Classical Hollywood, 1930–1960Chapter 12 – New Hollywood, 1961–1990Chapter 13 – American film post-2012Part IV – National cinemas, European cinema, and global cinemaChapter 14 – British film since 1995Chapter 15 – European filmChapter 16 – Global cinemaPart V - Further varieties of film experienceChapter 17 – Silent cinemaChapter 18 – Experimental filmChapter 19 – Documentary film: theory and practicePart VI - Understanding film through creative practiceChapter 20 – Researching and constructing a short filmIndex