Brief Table of Contents

To the Instructor (and the Curious Student)

Acknowledgments

Part I: The Formal Context

NEW Chapter 1: The Terms of Cinematic Engagement

Chapter 2: The Elements of Film Technique

Chapter 3: Storytelling and Narrative Fiction Film

Chapter 4: Documentary Film

Chapter 5: The Avant-Garde Cinema and Poetic Discourse

Part II: The Social Context

Chapter 6: Three Fundamental Styles: Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism 

REVISED Chapter 7: Hollywood and Beyond: National and Institutional Contexts

Chapter 8: Genre Films

Chapter 9: Ideology and the Cinema

REVISED Chapter 10: Ethnicity and Racism in Film

NEW Chapter 11: Gender, Masculinity, and Feminism

NEW Chapter 12: The Rise of Queer Cinema

Part III: The Viewer Responds

Chapter 13: Writing and Speaking About