Film Studies Resource Guide

Feminist film criticism is more than simply film studies with women injected as authors and subjects. Like the movements that inspired it, feminist film criticism deconstructs the role of gender, heteronormativity, race, and patriarchy in society. Since its inception in the 1970s, it has changed the way we think about film, spectatorship, and creative impulses.

Film criticism in America takes many forms; it is found in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and also on the radio, on television and on the Internet. Critics of the cinema assign meaning to films through interpretation and analysis. Some criticism is written for a general audience and published in popular magazines, such as the New Yorker, Time, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, oringeneral-circulation newspapers. Scholarly criticism is written for a well-informed or academic audience and is published in journals such as Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Jump Cut.

In one way, the philosophy of film is almost as old as the technology of film; in another way, it is a phenomenon that only emerges fully a century after the earliest screenings of films in 1895. Philosophizing about film has been with us for around a century in the form of the lively debates about the nature of the new medium that sprang up in the wake of its invention.

Includes articles from several databases.

Includes books, e-books, and articles.

This documentary is a compilation of some of Hollywood's most acclaimed directors. Interviews on what is a director, and what do they do. Includes Robert Altman, Time, Burton, James Cameron, and others.