Robin Wood, the renowned scholarly critic and writer on film, has prepared a new introduction and added three essays to his classic text Personal Views. This important book contains essays on a wide range of films and filmmakers and considers questions of the nature of film criticism and the critic. Wood, the proud -unreconstructed humanist, - offers in this collection persuasive arguments for the importance of art, creativity, and personal response and also demonstrates these values in his analyses.

Personal Views is the only book on cinema by Wood never to have been published in...