Other Reading - “Understand Film Studies” by Warren Buckland

I chose this book as background reading. I found it a very useful introduction to film studies covering amongst other topics;

• Aesthetics, formalism and realism
• Structure, narrative and narration
• Film authorship, the director as auteur
• Genre
• Documentary types
• Critique and reviewing

As a result of having read this book, I have a new appreciation of the cinema and I hope that I will be able to get more from watching the films recommended for this course.