Always the most accessible coverage with the best tools for students. New extended examples help students who have not seen a wide variety of films to better understand a film’s historical and cultural contexts. Clarifying how viewers make meaning, Chapter 10 has been reorganized to examine the influences on and expectations of the viewer before, during, and after the viewing of a film and the impact these have on response and meaning. A new Chapter 12 provides all the help students need to write successful papers about film.
Greater coverage of documentaries, animation, and anime — film types that continue to grow in importance and popularity. A new visual timeline online highlights key moments in animation history.
Exciting new material on gender and sexuality in film, with extensively rethought and expanded coverage, featuring discussions of
Brokeback Mountain, Angels in America, Kissing Jessica Stein, Some Like It Hot, Fried Green Tomatoes, and the 1930 film
Morocco, among many others.
A wider variety of international film. The fourth edition expands its emphasis on world cinema with more discussions of film from the Spanish-speaking world, German and Asian cinema, and films from across the Americas — Venezuela, Chile, Mexico, and Canada.
A fully revised visual program, with 80% new and better quality frame enlargements, plus two eight-page color inserts. This edition includes new frame enlargements from classic films such as
The Graduate, The Godfather, and
West Side Story, as well as images from recent movies students are familiar with, such as
Ray, Pan’s Labyrinth, 8 Mile, Sin City, The Passion of the Christ, and
The Lives of Others. New images also illustrate the cultural side of film — including a glimpse into the movie palace experience of the late 1920s.