CONTENTS
List of Contributors = xi
List of Illustrations = xvi
General Introduction / John Hill = xix
PART 1 CRITICAL APPROACHES = 1
1 Introduction to film studies / Richard Dyer = 3
Studying the film text = 11
2 The film text and film form / Robert P. Kolker = 11
READINGS : Written On the Wind / Robin Wood = 24
Citizen Kane / Peter Wollen = 26
3 Film acting / Paul McDonald = 30
4 Film costume / Pamela Church Gibson = 36
5 Film music / Claudia Gorbman = 43
The film text : theoretical frameworks = 51
6 Classic film theory and semiotics / Antony Easthope = 51
7 Formalism and neo-formalism / Ian Christie = 58
READING : Poetry and prose in Cinema / Viktor Shklovsky = 65
8 Impressionism, surrealism, and film theory / Robert B. Ray = 67
9 Film and psychoanalysis / Barbara Creed = 77
10 Post-structuralism and deconstruction / Peter Brunette = 91
11 Film and postmodernism / John Hill = 96
Film text and context : gender, ideology, and identities = 106
12 Marxism and film / Chuck Kleinhans = 106
READING : The political thriller debate / John Hill = 114
13 Feminism and film / Patricia White = 117
READINGS : Rebecca / Mary Ann Doane = 132
Rebecca / Tania Modleski = 133
14 Gay end lesbian criticism / Anneke Smelik = 135
15 Queer theory / Alexander Doty = 148
16 Pornography / Laura Kipnis = 153
17 Race, ethnicity, and film / Robyn Wiegman = 158
18 Film and cultural identity / Rey Chow = 169
Film text and context : culture, history, and reception = 176
19 Film and history / Dudley Andrew = 176
20 Sociology and film / Andrew Tudor = 190
21 Cultural studies and film / Graeme Turner = 195
22 Film audiences / Jostein Gripsrud = 202
23 Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, and film interpretation / Noel King = 212
PART 2 AMERICAN CINEMA AND HOLLYWOOD : CRITICAL APPROACHES = 225
American cinema : history, industry, and interpretation = 227
1 American cinema and film history / John Belton = 227
2 History and cinema technology / Duncan Patrie = 238
3 Hollywood as industry / Douglas Gomery = 245
4 Early American film / Tom Gunning = 255
5 Classical Hollywood film and melodrama / E. Ann Kaplan = 272
READINGS : Casablanca / Richard Maltby = 283
Casablanca / Rick Altman = 287
6 Post-classical Hollywood / Peter Kramer = 289
Critical concepts = 310
7 Authorship and Hollywood / Stephen Crofts = 310
READING : John Ford / Peter Wollen = 325
8 Genre and Hollywood / Tom Ryall = 327
READING : Body Genres / Linda Williams = 339
9 The star system and Hollywood / Jeremy G. Butler = 342
Politics and society = 354
10 Hollywood film and society / Douglas Kellner = 354
READING : Hollywood and ideology / Robert B. Ray = 363
11 Film policy : Hollywood and beyond / Albert Moran = 365
12 Hollywood and the world / Toby Miller = 371
PART 3 WORLD CINEMA : CRITICAL APPROACHES = 383
Redefining cinema : international and avant-garde alternatives = 385
1 Concepts of national cinema / Stephen Crofts = 385
2 Modernism and the avant-gardes / Murray Smith = 395
3 Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory / Ashish Rajadhyaksha = 413
Redefining cinema : other genres = 426
4 The documentary / John Izod ; Richard Kilborn = 426
5 The animated film / Michael O'Pray = 434
European cinema = 440
6 Issues in European cinema / Ginette Vincendeau = 440
CASE-STUDIES : MOVEMENTS, MOMENTS, AND FILMMAKERS = 449
7 The avant-gardes end European cinema before 1930 / Ian Christie = 449
8 Italian past-war cinema and Neo-Realism / Simona Monticelli = 455
9 The French Nouvelle Vague / Jill Forbes = 461
10 New German Cinema / Ulrike Sieglohr = 466
11 East Central European cinema / Daniel J. Goulding = 471
12 European film policy and the response to Hollywood / Armand Mattelart = 478
13 Directors and stars = 486
(a) Jean Renoir, Keith Reader = 486
(b) Ingmar Bergman, Chris Darke = 488
(c) Chantal Akerman, Cathy Fowler = 489
(d) Pedro Almod o' var, Jos e' Arroyo = 491
(e) Luc Besson, Susan Hayward = 494
(f) Brigitte Bardot, Ginette Vincendeau = 496
Anglophone national cinemas = 501
CASE-STUDY = 501
14 British cinema / Andrew Higson = 501
15 Ireland and cinema / Martin McLoone = 510
16 Australian cinema / Elizabeth Jacka = 516
17 Canadian cinema / Will Straw = 523
World cinema = 527
18 Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake = 527
CASE-STUDIES : CINEMAS OF THE WORLD = 535
19 Indian cinema / Ashish Rajadhyaksha = 535
READING : Popular Hindi cinema / Rosie Thomas = 541
20 Chinese cinema / B e' r e' nice Reynaud = 543
21 Hong Kong cinema
(a) Discovery and pre-discovery / Stephen Teo = 550
(b) China and 1997 / N. K. Leung = 554
22 Taiwanese New Cinema / Kuan-Hsing Chen = 557
23 Japanese cinema / Freda Freiberg = 562
24 African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike = 569
READING : Hyenas / Richard Porton = 576
25 South American cinema / Julianne Burton-Carvajal = 578
Redefining cinema : film in a changing age = 595
26 Film and changing technologies / Laura Kipnis = 595
27 Film and television / John Hill = 605
List of Picture Sources and Readings = 612
Index of Selected Names and Film Titles = 613
