1. Auteur Theory --
Case study: Alfred Hitchcock --
Case study: Guillermo del Toro --
2. Adaptations --
Case study: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012) --
3. Genre Theory --
Case study: The British Gangster Film --
Case study: The Musical --
4. Formalism --
Case study: Lola Rennt/Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) --
5. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism --
Case study: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) --
6. Marxism --
Case study: The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014) --
7. Realism --
Case study: Dogme 95 --
Case study: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) --
8. Postmodernism --
Case study: Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) --
9. Psychoanalysis --
Case study: Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park, 2003) --
10. Feminism --
Case study: Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, 2013) --
11. Masculinity --
Case study: Ryan Gosling --
12. Queer Theory --
Case study: Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) --
13. Race and Ethnicity --
Case study: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) --
14. Postcolonial and Transnational Cinemas --
Case study: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) --
15. Stars --
Case study: Amitabh Bachchan --
Case study: Dame Judi Dench --
16. Audience Research and Reception --
Case study: Tartan Video.