The Film Studies Reader

A Hodder Arnold teaching reader edited by Joanne Hollows, Mark Jancovich and Peter Hutchings. It gathers edited extracts from major critics — from early mass-culture debate through semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, post-colonial thought and queer theory — each set in historical context by editorial introductions and sectional headnotes. The volume was pitched at first- and second-year film and media degrees at the moment UK modularisation was expanding theory-led screen study; library metadata also records a co-published United States line through Oxford University Press.

The sections move from foundational mass-culture and authorship debates through the structuralist and psychoanalytic turn, into reception, audience and identity-led reading practices, and on to the cultural-studies and post-colonial reframings of the 1990s. The reader is built to be taught in seminar pairs rather than consulted as a stand-alone reference.

The three editors taught at Nottingham Trent, Leicester and Northumbria and brought a working profile in popular cinema, genre and historical reception to the volume. It sat in the Hodder Arnold humanities catalogue alongside the firm's media and cultural-studies titles.