Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Film Technique /​ Vsevolod Pudovkin
[On Editing] /​ Vsevolod Pudovkin
From Film Form /​ Sergei Eisenstein
Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram] /​ Sergei Eisenstein
The Dramaturgy of Film Form [The Dialectical Approach to Film Form] /​ Sergei Eisenstein
From What Is Cinema? /​ Andre Bazin
The Evolution of the Language of Cinema /​ Andre Bazin
From Film Language /​ Christian Metz
Some Points in the Semiotics of the Cinema /​ Christian Metz
Semiotics and the Cinema: Metz and Wollen /​ Gilbert Harman
The Discourse of Pictures: Iconicity and Film Studies /​ Stephen Prince
The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema /​ Daniel Dayan
Against "The System of the Suture" /​ William Rothman
From Theory of Film /​ Siegfried Kracauer
Basic Concepts /​ Siegfried Kracauer
The Ontology of the Photographic Image /​ Andre Bazin
The Myth of Total Cinema /​ Andre Bazin
De Sica: Metteur-En-Scene /​ Andre Bazin
From Film as Art /​ Rudolf Arnheim
The Complete Film /​ Rudolf Arnheim
The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema /​ Jean-Louis Baudry
From Mystifying Movies /​ Noël Carroll
Jean-Louis Baudry and "The Apparatus" /​ Noël Carroll
The Establishment of Physical Existence /​ Siegfried Kracauer
From Theory of the Film /​ Bela Balks
The Close-up /​ Bela Balks
The Face of Man /​ Bela Balks
Film and Reality /​ Rudolf Arnheim
The Making of a Film /​ Rudolf Arnheim
Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus /​ Jean-Louis Baudry
From Theorizing the Moving Image /​ Noel Carroll
Defining the Moving Image /​ Noel Carroll
From The Virtual Life of Film /​ D.N. Rodowick
An Elegy for Film /​ D.N. Rodowick
Statement on Sound /​ Vsevolod Pudovkin /​ Grigori Alexandrov /​ Sergei Eisenstein
Aural Objects /​ Christian Metz
From The Voice in Cinema /​ Michel Chion
The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space /​ Mary Ann Doane
Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound /​ John Belton
From Sound Theory/​Sound Practice /​ Rick Altman
Four and a Half Film Fallacies /​ Rick Altman
Theater and Cinema /​ Andre Bazin
From The World in a Frame /​ Leo Braudy
Acting: Stage vs. Screen /​ Leo Braudy
From Concepts in Film Theory /​ Dudley Andrew
Adaptation /​ Dudley Andrew
From D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film /​ Tom Gunning
Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System /​ Tom Gunning
Film Music and Narrative Agency /​ Jerrold Levinson
Peter Wollen Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'est /​ Jerrold Levinson
Notes on Spectator Emotion and Ideological Film Criticism /​ Carl Plantinga
Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 /​ Andrew Sarris
From Signs and Meaning in the Cinema 404 The Auteur Theory [Howard Hawks and John Ford] /​ Peter Wollen
The Face of Garbo /​ Roland Barthes
From From Reverence to Rape /​ Molly Haskell
Female Stars of the 1940s /​ Molly Haskell
From The Material Ghost /​ Gilberto Perez
[On Keaton and Chaplin] /​ Gilberto Perez
From Stars /​ Richard Dyer
From The Genius of the System /​ Thomas Schatz
"The Whole Equation of Pictures" /​ Thomas Schatz
From America's Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures /​ Jerome Christensen
Genre: The Conventions of Connection /​ Leo Braudy
From Film/​Genre /​ Rick Altman
A Semantic/​Syntactic Approach to Film Genre /​ Rick Altman
Conclusion: A Semantic/​Syntactic/​Pragmatic Approach to Genre /​ Rick Altman
Notes on Film Noir /​ Paul Schrader
Ideology, Genre, Auteur /​ Robin Wood
Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess /​ Linda Williams
From Men, Women, and Chainsaws /​ Carol Clover
Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films /​ Cynthia A. Freeland
The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice /​ David Bordwell
Cinema/​Ideology/​Criticism /​ Jean-Louis Comolli /​ Jean Narboni
From The Imaginary Signifier /​ Christian Metz
Identification, Mirror /​ Christian Metz
The Passion for Perceiving /​ Christian Metz
Disavowal, Fetishism /​ Christian Metz
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema /​ Laura Mulvey
From The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory /​ Tania Modleski
The Master's Dollhouse: Rear Window /​ Tania Modleski
An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In) Credulous Spectator /​ Tom Gunning
From White /​ Richard Dyer
Lighting for Whiteness /​ Richard Dyer
Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance /​ Manthia Diawara
The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators /​ Bell Hooks
The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future /​ Leilani Nishime
From The Language of New Media /​ Lev Manovich
Synthetic Realism and Its Discontents /​ Lev Manovich
The Synthetic Image and Its Subject /​ Lev Manovich
Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image /​ Lev Manovich
From Change Mummified /​ Philip Rosen
The World in the Palm of Your Hand: Agnes Varda, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and the Digital Documentary /​ John Belton
The Digital Multitude /​ Kristen Whissel
Cinema 3.0: The Interactive-Image /​ Kristen Daly
Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture /​ Henry Jenkins Quentin
Time Zones and Jetlag: The Flows and Phases of World Cinema /​ Dudley Andrew
From Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media /​ Robert Stam /​ Ella Shohat
Stereotype, Realism, and the Struggle Over Representation /​ Robert Stam /​ Ella Shohat
Reconceptualizing National Cinema(s) /​ Stephen Crofts
The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order /​ Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Film and Cultural Identity /​ Rey Chow
Chinese Cinema and Transnational Film Studies /​ Yingjin Zhang
Issues in World Cinema /​ Wimal Dissanayake.