title: Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)
author:  Susan Hayward 
description: Susan Hayward is Professor of French and lectures in French cinema at the University of Exeter. She is the author of <EM>French National Cinema</EM> (Routledge, 1993).
zlib_text: Lúcia Nagib is Professor of Film at the University of Reading. Her books include 
  Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (I.B.Tauris, 2007) and World 
  Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (2011). Her books as editor include The New 
  Brazilian Cinema (I.B.Tauris, 2003), Realism and the Audiovisual Media (with 
  Cecília Mello, 2009) and Theorizing World Cinema (with Chris Perriam and Rajinder 
  Dudrah, I.B.Tauris, 2011). She is series editor of Tauris’s World Cinema series.  
   
  Anne Jerslev is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of 
  Copenhagen. She is the author of books about David Lynch, cult films, youth and 
  violent cinema, and media and intimacy. She is the editor of Realism and ‘Reality’ in 
  Film and Media (2002) and, with Rune Gade, Performative Realism (2004).   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  ‘This well-conceived collection takes up Bazin’s call for an “impure cinema”. 
  The call is defined not as a precious definition of the cinema as object, but as an 
  iterative and sensu