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Article: Harbord, Janet. Film Cultures.(Book Review)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- June 1, 2005
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Harbord, Janet. Film Cultures. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage, 2002. pp. x, 182. ISBN 0-7619-6520-3 (hb.) $115.00; 0-7619-6521-1 (pb.) $37.95.
Pressed to define film, most of us would offer something more than "a series of sequential images on a strip of celluloid." Intuitively we know that film encompasses more. How much more, we would disagree. Clearly this definition of film as an object does not do justice to the time in a theater or with a video. Harbord, a lecturer in Film Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, takes an even wider view, arguing that we simultaneously experience film as a series of cultures, as a multitude of ...