Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I: The Author:.
Introduction: Robert Stam.
1. Dennis Potter and the Question of the Television Author: Rosalind Coward.
2. To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema (extract): Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.
3. The Unauthorized Auteur Today: Dudley Andrew.
Part II: Film Language: Introduction: Robert Stam.
4. The Specificity of Media in the Arts: Noel Carroll.
5. For a Semio-Pragmatics of Film: Roger Odin.
6. The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Cinematic and Electronic 'Presence': Vivian Sobchack.
Part III: The Image and Technology:.
Introduction: Toby Miller.
7. Necessities and Constraints: A Pattern of Technological Change: Brian Winston.
8. Projections of Sound on Image: Michel Chion.
9. Modes of Production: The TV Apparatus: John T. Caldwell.
Part IV: Text and Intertext:.
Introduction: Robert Stam.
10. Questions of Genre: Steve Neale.
11. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre: Rick Altman.
12. The 'Force-Field' of Melodrama: Stuart Cunningham.
13. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess: Linda Williams.
Part V: The Question of Realism:.
Introduction: Robert Stam.
14. The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde: Tom Gunning.
15. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrational Principles and Procedures: David Bordwell.
16. Black American Cinema: The New Realism: Manthia Diawara.
Part VI: Alternative Aesthetics:.
Introduction: Robert Stam.
17. Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of Cinema of Liberation in the Third World: Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino.
18. For an Imperfect Cinema: Julio Garcia Espinosa.
19. Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films: Teshome H. Gabriel.
20. Rethinking Women's Cinema: Aesthetics and Feminist Theory: Teresa de Lauretis.
Part VII: The Historical Spectator/Audience:.
Introduction: Toby Miller.
21. Cowboys and Indians: Perceptions of Western Films Among American Indians and Anglos: JoEllen Shively.
22. Television News and its Spectator: Robert Stam.
23. Addressing the Spectator of a 'Third World' National Cinema: The Bombay 'Social' Film of the 1940's and 1950's: Ravi S. Vasudevan.
Part VIII: Apparatus Theory:.
Introduction: Toby Miller.
24. The Imaginary Signifier: Christian Metz.
25. The Orthopsychic Subject: Film Theory and the Reception of Lacan: Joan Copjec.
26. Feminism, Film Theory, and the Bachelor Machines: Constance Penley.
Part IX: The Nature of the Gaze:.
Introduction: Toby Miller.
27. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema: Laura Mulvey.
28. Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator: Mary Ann Doane.
29. The Oppositional Gaze: bell hooks.
30. Looking Awry: Slavoj Zizek.
Part X: Class and the Culture Industries:.
Introduction: Toby Miller.
31. Constituents of a Theory of the Media: Hans Magnus Enzenburger.
32. Ideology, Economy and the British Cinema: John Hill.
33. Mass Culture and the Feminine: The 'Place' of Television in Film Studies: Patrice Petro.
Part XI: Stars and Performance:.
Introduction: Toby Miller.
34. Introduction to Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society: Richard Dyer.
35. Marlon Brando in 'On the Waterfront': James Naremore.
36. Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess: Kathleen K. Rowe.
37. The She-Man: Postmodern Bi-Sexed Performance in Film and Video: Chris Straayer.
Part XII: Permutations of Difference:.
Introduction: Robert Stam.
38. Gender and Culture of Empire: Towards a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema: Ella Shohat.
39. Categories of Stereotyping of American Indians in Film: Ward Churchill.
40. Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation: Stuart Hall.
41. White Privilege and Looking Relations: Jane Gaines.
42. White: Richard Dyer.
Part XIII: The Postmodern and the Global:.
Introduction: Robert Stam.
43. Television and Postmodernism: Jim Collins.
44 Critical and Textual Hypermasculinity: Lynne Joyrich.
45. Conclusion: Henry Jenkins.
Bibliography.
Index.
