Radio, Television, and Film (RTF)

Robert Phillip Kolker, 2009. "Covers a "golden age" of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s." Online, PDF, and HTML formats. CC BY NC ND (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative) license.

OER textbook published by Open SUNY, 2017. "The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme." Organized into 8 chapter covering the major areas of film construction and production. PDF, EPUB, and online formats. CC BY NC SA (Creative Commons - Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike) license.

Georgia State University instructors, 2018. "This open set of course materials for Film Aesthetics is a downloadable version of a course created for a learning management system. Included are learning modules and a quiz bank based on introductory film concepts including the following topics: Narrative Structure and Motifs, Mise-en-Scene, Cinematography, Sound Design, Music, and Visual Effects." Course download file. CC BY (Creative Commons - Attribution) license. Eligible for Print on Demand if materials are compiled into a print-ready format.

Online textbook about American history, with several sections devoted to Film and history of film. Not strictly open but educational use and linking encouraged.

This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period, classic Hollywood genres including musicals, thrillers and westerns, and European and Japanese art cinema. It explores the work of Griffith, Chaplin, Keaton, Capra, Hawks, Hitchcock, Altman, Renoir, DeSica, and Kurosawa. Through comparative reading of films from different eras and countries, students develop the skills to turn their in-depth analyses into interpretations and explore theoretical issues related to spectatorship.

University of Arkansas, 2020. "Textbook for 1000- level Communication course: Introduction to Films Studies." Organized into 10 chapters. Online, PDF, and EPUB formats. CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license.

"This 2018 volume brings together a wide range of the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience and study of film. The book offers analyses by leading figures in film studies such as Tom Gunning and Charles Musser, who examine the ways in which technological changes have altered the ways how cinema is conceived and how it is approached as an object of study." PDF and online formats. Not openly licensed licensed, but open access and therefore freely available to link to.

Jill Olmstead (2022) Professor of Journalism at American University. This 11 chapter text contains audio and video clips and is available online and via PDF. The license is Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC.