Foreword Bill Nichols Introduction to the fourth edition Jill Nelmes Part I Approaches to Studying Cinema Chapter 1 Rediscovering Film Studies: Some fresh starting points (Patrick Phillips) Part 2 Cinema as Institution : Industries, Technologies and Audiences Chapter 2 The Industrial Contexts of Film Production (Searle Kochberg) Part 3 Approaches to Studying Film Texts Chapter 3 Film Form and Narrative (Suzanne Speidel) Chapter 4 Approaches to Cinematic Authorship (Paul Watson) Chapter 5 Genre Theory and Hollywood Cinema (Paul Watson) Chapter 6 Stardom and Hollywood Cinema (Paul Watson) Chapter 7 Spectator, Audience and Response (Patrick Phillips) Part 4 Other Genre Forms Chapter 8 The Documentary Form (Paul Ward) Chapter 9 The Language of Animation (Paul Wells) Part 5 Cinema, Identities and the Politics of Representation Chapter 10 Gender and Film (Jill Nelmes) Chapter 11 Lesbian and Gay Cinema (Chris Jones) Chapter 12 Ethnicity, Race and Cinema -- African American Film (Terri Francis) Part 6 Cinema, Nationhood and National Identities Studying National Cinema: Case Studies Chapter 13 British Cinema (Lawrence Napper) Chapter 14 Indian Cinema (Lalitha Gopalan) National Cinemas: Art, Politics and the Avant-Garde Chapter 15 Soviet Montage Cinema of the 1920s (Mark Joyce) Chapter 16 The French New Wave (Chris Darke) Glossary Bibliography Index.