Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1 : Structures of filmic narrative -- Classical Hollywood cinema : narrational principles and procedures / David Bordwell -- Problems of denotation in the fiction film / Christian Metz -- Segmenting/analyzing / Raymond Bellour -- The obvious and the code / Raymond Bellour -- The spectator-in-the-text : the rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne -- Godard and the counter-cinema : Vent d'Est / Peter Wollen -- The concept of cinematic excess / Kristin Thompson -- Uncoded images in the heterogeneous text / Deborah Linderman -- Part 2 : Subject, narrative, cinema -- Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein / Roland Barthes -- Theory and film : principles of realism and pleasure / Colin MacCabe -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Voyeurism, the look, and Dwoskin / Paul Willemen -- Suture (excerpts) / Kaja Silverman -- Ellipsis on dread and the specular seduction / Julia Kristeva -- The imaginary signifier (excerpts) / Christian Metz -- Part 3 : Apparatus -- Ideological effects of the basic cinematographic apparatus / Jean-Louis Baudry -- The apparatus : metapsychological approaches to the impression of reality in cinema / Jean-Louis Baudry -- The silences of the voice / Pascal Bonitzer -- The voice in the cinema : the articulation of body and space / Mary Ann Doane -- Acinema / Jean François Lyotard -- Through the looking-glass / Teresa de Lauretis -- Part 4 : Textuality as ideology -- Narrative space / Stephen Heath -- Technique and ideology : camera, perspective, depth of field (parts 3 and 4) / Jean-Louis Comolli -- John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln / Editors of Cahiers du cinéma -- Primitivism and the avant-gardes : a dialectical approach / Noël Burch -- Film body : an implantation of perversions / Linda Williams -- Primary identification and the historical subject : Fassbinder and Germany / Thomas Elsaesser.