Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is essential reading for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories and production terms, this is a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.

Now fully revised and updated for its fifth edition, the book includes entries on topics such as:

• Acting
• Audience
• CGI
• Convergence
• Cult cinema
• Digitisation and globalisation
• Distribution
• Experimental film
• Transnational cinema
• World cinemas

Susan Hayward is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include Luc Besson (1998), French National Cinema (Second edition, Routledge 2005), Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign (2004), Les Diaboliques (2005), Nikita (2010), French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics (2010).