title: Film Theory: Creating a Cinematic Grammar (Short Cuts)
author:  Felicity Colman 
description: Succint yet detailed, comprehensive, engaging and entertaining, this volume astutely charts the importance and continuing relevance of theory for film studies. It is also polemical and original insofar as it debunks a range of misconceptions relating to film theory, while also offering insights into challenging new theoretical domains. (Richard Rushton, Lancaster University)<br /><br />In her concise but also unconventional account Colman challenges readers, refusing to shy away from film theory's complexity or from deliberate provocation... Refreshing... Impressive... (<i>New Review of Film and Television</i>)
zlib_text: FELICITY COLMAN
  CREATING A CINEMATIC GRAMMAR
  FILM THEORY
  
  SHORT CUTS
  INTRODUCTIONS TO FILM STUDIES
  
  OTHER SELECT TITLES IN THE SHORT CUTS SERIES
  THE HORROR GENRE: FROM BEELZEBUB TO BLAIR WITCH   Paul Wells
  THE STAR SYSTEM: HOLLYWOOD’S PRODUCTION OF POPULAR IDENTITIES   Paul McDonald
  SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA: FROM OUTERSPACE TO CYBERSPACE   Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska
  EARLY SOVIET CINEMA: INNOVATION, IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA   David Gillespie
  READING HOLLYWOOD: SPACES AND MEANINGS IN AMERICAN FILM   Deborah Thomas
  DISASTER MOVIES: THE CINEMA OF CATASTROPHE   Stephen Keane
  THE WESTERN GENRE: FROM LORDSBURG TO BIG WHISKEY   John Saunders
  PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CINEMA: THE PLAY OF SHADOWS   Vicky Lebeau
  COSTUME AND CINEMA: DRESS CODES IN POPULAR FILM   Sarah Street
  MISE-EN-SCÈNE: FILM STYLE AND INTERPRETATION   John Gibbs
  NEW CHINESE CINEMA: CHALLENGING REPRESENTATIONS   Sheila Cornelius with Ian Haydn Smith
  ANIMATION: GENRE AND AUTHORSHIP   Paul Wells
  WOMEN’S CINEMA: THE CONTESTED SCREEN   A