Guy Westwell — A Dictionary of Film Studies

Guy Westwell, A Dictionary of Film Studies (2nd edn, Oxford).

Good for

Not yet written up. The measured coverage below says what this book is dense on; the judgement about when to reach for it is still to come.

In the library

Held in Reel, the local research library of scanned and indexed film books. 34 parts, 6,181 indexed passages. No page numbers in this scan.

This scan carries no page numbers, so it cannot be cited by page — quote it as dfs and locate the passage by searching. (Reflowable sources such as EPUBs have no fixed pagination to record.)

Strongest on

Measured, not guessed. Each figure is how much denser this book is on a concept than the library average — so common words don't crowd out real specialisms.

• Iconography — 2.1× the library average (33 passages)
• Continuity — 1.9× the library average (47 passages)