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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 377pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Slight foxing on topedge, a bit of bumping at the foot of the spine, near fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. What is cinema-a mass medium controlled by conservative commercial interest? A dynamic art form with its own language? A political and ideoligical weapon? Film theorists have puzzeled for years over the knotty problem of how to define cinema, and which critical methods to adopt, often looking towards disciplines as diverse and potentially incompatible as literature, history, philosophy, sociolagy, psychoanalysis, structuralism and art history for answers .Over the last two decades, the study of film in Britain has changed more dramitically than any other academic discipline in response to social and cultural shifts, devouring and incorporating often complex debates and issues with almost unseemly haste. Here, for the first time, the history of those changes is unravelled and presented in an accessible form. But as well as providing an indispensable guide to debates in film education, The Cinema Book makes its own contribution to the discussion, arguing that the question, 'What is cinema?' is now more relevant than ever.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…