title: Film Studies: An Introduction (Teach Yourself)
author:  Warren Buckland 
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  Film StudieS
  
  An Introduction
  
  _This book is dedicated to the memory of_ _my father_
  
  Film StudieS
  
  An Introduction
  
  Warren Buckland
  
  ![](Images/image00522.jpeg)
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2015 by John Murray Learning. An Hachette
  UK
  
  company.
  
  Based on material previously published as _Understand Film Studies_ , 2010
  
  This edition published in 2015 by John Murray Learning Copyright © Warren
  Buckland 2015
  
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  1988.
  
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