Part 1: Cultural Contexts: Making, Watching, and Studying Movies
Introduction: Studying Film: Culture, Practice, Experience
Chapter 1: Encountering Film: From Preproduction to Exhibition
Part 2: Formal Compositions: Film Scenes, Shots, Cuts, and Sounds
Chapter 2: Exploring a Material World: Mise-en-Scène
Chapter 3: Framing What We See: Cinematography
Chapter 4: Relating Images: Film Editing
Chapter 5: Listening to the Cinema: Film Sound
Part 3: Organizational Structures: From Stories to Genres
Chapter 6: Telling Stories: Narrative Films
Chapter 7: Representing the Real: Documentary Films
Chapter 8: Challenging Form: Experimental Film and New Media
Chapter 9: Rituals, Conventions, Archetypes, and Formulas: Movie Genres
Part 4: Critical Perspectives: Histories, Methods, Writing
Chapter 10: History and Historiography: Hollywood and Beyond
Chapter 11: Reading about Film: Critical Theories and Methods
Chapter 12: Writing about Film: Observations, Arguments Research, and Analysis