the world exist in over 20 countries. Due to the high cost of film production developing countries are left out of the film industry especially in the academic setting. Despite this fact more prosperous countries have the ability to study film in all the aspects of film studies. Discourse in film can be found in the schools around the world; often, international attention to the aesthetics of film emerge from film festivals. For example, the Cannes Film Festival is the most prestigious in the world. Though this discourse revolves around the film industry and promotion and does not exist within an academic school setting, numerous aspects of analysis and critical approaches are taken into account on this international stage. Prominent scholars Hugo Münsterberg Ricciotto Canudo Germaine Dulac Béla Balázs Siegfried Kracauer Vsevolod Pudovkin Jean Epstein Sergei Eisenstein Lev Kuleshov Jean Mitry Rudolf Arnheim Paul Rotha André Bazin Alexandre Astruc Gilles Deleuze Stanley Cavell Andrew Sarris Jean-Louis Baudry Christian Metz François Truffaut Robin Wood Noël Burch Raymond Durgnat E. Ann Kaplan Jeanine Basinger Teresa de Lauretis Peter Wollen Richard Barsam Teshome Gabriel Raymond Bellour Molly Haskell Marsha Kinder Vivian Sobchack Claire Johnston Laura Mulvey Robert Stam James Naremore Bill Nichols James Monaco Jacques Aumont Pam Cook Peter Bondanella Barbara Creed Jonathan Rosenbaum Thomas Elsaesser Serge Daney Hamid Naficy Richard Dyer Ian Christie Dudley Andrew Annette Kuhn Janet Staiger Linda Williams Noël Carroll Francesco Casetti David Bordwell Michel Chion B. Ruby Rich Slavoj Žižek Colin MacCabe Kristin Thompson Mary Ann Doane Elizabeth Cowie Jonathan Beller Geoff Andrew Adrian Martin David Kipen Mark Cousins Academic journals Cinema Journal Film Quarterly Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Journal of Film and Video Journal of Popular Film & Television New Review of Film and Television Studies Screen The Velvet Light Trap Television & New Media See also Cinemeducation, the use of film in medical education Cinephilia Film genre Filmmaking Glossary of motion picture terms Experimental film Fictional film History of film Philosophy of film Outline of film References Further reading Bergan, Ronald. Film. New York: DK Pub., 2006. Dix, Andrew. Beginning Film Studies. Manchester UP. Grant, Barry Keith. Film Study in the Undergraduate Curriculum. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1983. Osborne, Richard. Film Theory for Beginners. London, Zidane Press. 2016. Polan, Dana, and Haidee Wasson. "Young Art, Old Colleges." Inventing Film Studies. Durham: Duke UP, 2008. Polan, Dana. Scenes of Instruction: The