If you're interested in a starter book that deals with *both* film and US-style television, then I humbly submit: Jeremy G. Butler, TELEVISION: CRITICAL METHODS AND APPLICATIONS (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994). It features a chapter introducing several major critical approaches to film/TV. ---------- Number of the Best Actor/Actress Oscar nominees 1986-94 who played a mentally or physically disabled person: 9. ---------- | Jeremy Butler - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L/SCREENsite Coordinator http://www.sa.ua.edu/tcf/welcome.htm | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |