Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Illustrations General Introduction PART 1. CRITICAL APPROACHES 1. Introduction to film studies, Richard Dyer Studying the film text 2. The film text and film form, Robert P. Kolker Readings: Written on the Wind, Robin Wood Citizen Kane, Peter Wollen 3. Film acting, Paul McDonald 4. Film costume, Pamela Church Gibson 5. Film music, Claudia Gorbman The film text: theoretical frameworks 6. Classic film theory and semiotics, Antony Easthope 7. Formalism and neo-formalism, Ian Christie Reading: Poetry and prose in cinema, Viktor Shklovsky 8. Impressionism, surrealism, and film theory, Robert B. Ray 9. Film and psychoanalysis, Barbara Creed 10. Post-structuralism and deconstruction, Peter Brunette 11. Film and postmodernism, John Hill Film text and context: gender, ideology, and identities 12. Marxism and film, Chuck Kleinhans Reading: The political thriller debate, John Hill 13. Feminism and film, Patricia White Readings: Rebecca, Mary Ann Doane Rebecca, Tania Modleski 14. Gay and lesbian criticism, Anneke Smelik 15. Queer theory, Alexander Doty 16. Pornography, Laura Kipnis 17. Race, ethnicity, and film, Robyn Wiegman 18. Film and cultural identity, Rey Chow Film text and context: culture, history, and reception 19. Film and history, Dudley Andrew 20. Sociology and film, Andrew Tudor 21. Cultural studies and film, Graeme Turner 22. Film audiences, Jostein Gripsrud 23. Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, and film interpretation, Noel King PART 2. AMERICAN CINEMA AND HOLLYWOOD: CRITICAL APPROACHES American cinema: history, industry, and interpretation 1. American cinema and film history, John Belton 2. History and cinema technology, Duncan Petrie 3. Hollywood as industry, Douglas Gomery 4. Early American film, Tom Gunning 5. Classical Hollywood film and melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan Readings: Casablanca, Richard Maltby Casablanca, Rick Altman 6. Post-classical Hollywood, Peter Kramer Critical concepts 7. Authorship and Hollywood, Stephen Crofts Reading: John Ford, Peter Wollen 8. Genre and Hollywood, Tom Ryall Reading: Body Genres, Linda Williams 9. The star system and Hollywood, Jeremy G. Butler Politics and society 10. Hollywood film and society, Douglas Kellner Reading: Hollywood and ideology, Robert B. Ray 11. Film policy: Hollywood and beyond, Albert Morgan 12. Hollywood and the world, Toby Miller PART 3. WORLD CINEMA: CRITICAL APPROACHES Redefining cinema: international and avant-garde alternatives 1. Concepts of national cinema, Stephen Crofts 2. Modernism and the avant-gardes, Murray Smith 3. Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory, Ashish Rajadhyaksha Redefining cinema: other genres 4. The documentary, John Izod and Richard Kilborn 5. The animated film, Michael O'Pray European cinema 6. Issues in European cinema, Ginette Vincendeau CASE-STUDIES: MOVEMENTS, MOMENTS, AND FILMMAKERS 7. The avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930, Ian Christie 8. Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realism, Simona Monticelli 9. The French Nouvelle Vague, Jill Forbes 10. New German Cinema, Ulrike Sieglohr 11. East Central European cinema, Daniel J. Goulding 12. European film policy and the response to Hollywood, Armand Mattelart 13. Directors and stars (a) Jean Renoir, Keith Reader (b) Ingmar Bergman, Chris Darke (c) Chantal Akerman, Cathy Fowler (d) Pedro Almodovar, Jose Arroyo (e) Luc Besson, Susan Hayward (f) Brigitte Bardot, Ginette Vincendeau Anglophone national cinemas CASE-STUDIES 14. British cinema, Andrew Higson 15. Ireland and cinema, Martin McLoone 16. Australian cinema, Elizabeth Jacka 17. Canadian cinema, Will Straw World cinema 18. Issues in world cinema, Wimal Dissanayake CASE-STUDIES: CINEMAS OF THE WORLD 19. Indian cinema, Ashish Rajadhyaksha Reading: Popular Hindi cinema, Rosie Thomas 20. Chinese cinema, Berenice Reynaud 21. Hong Kong cinema (a) Discovery and pre-discovery, Stephen Teo (b) China and 1997, N.K. Leung 22. Taiwanese New Cinema, Kuan-Hsing Chen 23. Japanese cinema, Freda Freiberg 24. African cinema, N. Frank Ukadike Reading: Hyenas, Richard Porton 25. South American cinema, Julianne Burton-Cavajal Redefining cinema: film in a changing age 26. Film and changing technologies, Laura Kipnis 27. Film and television, John Hill List of Picture Sources and Readings Index of Selected Names and Film Titles