Saturday 9 May 2009

So you want to study cinema? Free sample introductions to Film Studies


Today, for those of you who may be thinking of taking the educational plunge into Film Studies (as well as for those seeking to guide potential film students), Film Studies For Free brings a list of links to high-quality, freely-available online essays, sample book chapters, and other resources, all of which all give a very rich sense of what it is like to study this highly rewarding subject.

If there any other relevant websites or sample introductory book chapters out there that FSFF has inadvertently omitted from this list, please feel free to email with information.

6 comments:

Jason Mittell said...

If you don't mind including the related field of Television Studies (and a little self-promotion), my new textbook Television and American Culture has a companion website and I've posted the introduction on my blog.

Thanks always for these great resources!
-Jason

Catherine Grant said...

Thanks for the excellent links, Jason. I'll try and look out some more television studies introductions for a related post.

Catherine Grant said...

...Thus inspired by Jason's links, today's FSFF post (above this one) gives lots of links to introductions to television and small screen studies.

cinetrix said...

Corrigan & White's 2nd edition of The Film Experience is now out, and you can preview chapters 3 (mise-en-scene) and 10 (genres) here

Catherine Grant said...

Thanks a lot Cinetrix. I'll add the link to the post.

Thottekat K M said...

This might be a 'little' late, but Chapter 1 - Looking at Movies & Chapter 3 - Types of Movies of Looking at Movies 3e and Chapter 6 - Editing of Looking at Movies 2e (both by Richard Barsam) can be read online. Click the respective 'demo' button at link - http://www.nortonebooks.com/disciplines/discipline2.asp?Discid=9