Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the ninth edition has been integrated thoroughly with Bordwell and Thompson's blog, "Observations on Film Art." Marginal links direct students and instructors to specific, pertinent blog entries that expand and enrich the text discussion.