Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings

The book contains the most important essays and articles about film theory and critism. As it has a lot of information, it is slighty heavy and the size of the letters is rather small. The quality of the paper is good. It is not hard cover, so it requires a good extra care. Great value.

I ordered this book as new. But when I received today most of the corners were folded and/or damaged.

Good textbook, in good condition as advertised. Satisfactory purchase.

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It is true that no other collection can offer the range of material included here, and that Braudy and Cohen provide admirably lucid introductions to the individual sections.However, one waits in vain, in this eighth edition, for the correction of the numerous egregious typos, missing or added words, etc. that plagued earlier editions. For example, one throws up one's hands to see "Preconscious" rendered "Proconscious." This is the kind of careless error that simply reinforces our students' tendency to want to dismiss all jargon as nonsense and have done with it.It is not simply that old errors are left to stand. The appearance of new essays in this eighth edition also means the proliferation of errors. I was heartened to see bell hooks' "The Oppositional Gaze," until I saw the way that sloppy editing had transformed two passages (on p. 687) into nonsense. When is inclusion of an author also an insult?Does Oxford UP assume no responsibility for the quality of its editing?We are, I am afraid, stuck with this flawed monolith.