----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > I work in the film industry but all of my knowledge comes from >practical experience and simply enjoying watching films. Now this List >has me curious about the analytical side of things. So where do I start? > What's a good primer to introduce the subject to an essentially >non-academic type? Maybe then I'll have some idea what the hell you folks >are talking about. > TIA, > Danny. Hmm... Difficult question, since there's no easy way to jump into what is essentially an extremely self-referential and jargonistic field. However, I recommend Mast, Cohen and Braudy's _Film Theory and Criticism_ to my students as a way to start approaching what film theory in the European-American context has been about. ************ Kristine J. Butler Department of French and Italian University of Minnesota "To dissect is a form of revenge." -Gustave Flaubert