Presents the writing from a new generation of film historians, theorists, and critics representing many different disciplines, cultures, and critical perspectives.
Focuses on the problems of adapting and transferring fiction and drama to film. Covers various film genres, theory and criticism. Features interviews with screenwriters, directors and actors.
Contains ideas about particular films or bodies of work, but also with the regimes under which films are produced and viewed, and with the more abstract theoretical and philosophical issues raised by film study.