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Article: Turner, Graeme. (Ed.). The Film Cultures Reader.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2003
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Turner, Graeme. (Ed.). The Film Cultures Reader. London/New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xx, 524. ISBN 0-415-25282-2 (pb.) $27.95.
Drawing on the notion that Western film studies needs a reinvigorating shot in the arm, Graeme Turner, currently Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia, has compiled a collection of essays from 35 film scholars written over the past 20 years to make up The Film Cultures Reader. The Reader was originally intended as a companion volume for Turner's introductory textbook Film as Social Practice (3rd ed., 1999). Like that text, Turner focuses this collection of articles solidly "within the study of ...