Review of Understand Film Studies

The book Understand Film Studies, aims to equip its reader with necessary concepts for film critique; in this regard the author describes the definitions of aesthetic and film structure, film genres and documentary, and by giving examples and expressing the basic concepts of each one, clarify the topics. But the ten approaches mentioned in the book, do not have precision and comprehensiveness enough for film analysis. The emphasis on Hollywood films and special privilege on director as auteur, palliate the up to date content of the book, despite the subsequent text-based analysis.