Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Photography -- Overview -- Realism and formalism -- Shots -- Angles -- Light and dark -- Color -- Lenses, filters, and stocks -- Special effects -- Cinematographer -- Further reading -- 2: Mise en Scene -- Overview -- Frame -- Composition and design -- Territorial space -- Proxemic patterns -- Open and closed forms -- Further reading -- 3: Movement -- Overview -- Kinetics -- Moving camera -- Mechanical distortions of movement -- Further reading -- 4: Editing -- Overview -- Continuity -- D W Griffith and classical cutting -- Soviet montage and the formalist tradition -- Andre Bazin and the tradition of realism -- Hitchcock's North by Northwest: storyboard version -- Further reading -- 5: Sound -- Overview -- Historical background -- Sound effects -- Music -- Musicals -- Spoken language -- Further reading -- 6: Acting -- Overview -- Stage and screen acting -- American star system -- Styles of acting -- Casting -- Further reading -- 7: Drama -- Overview -- Time, space, and language -- Director -- Settings and decor -- Costumes and makeup -- Further reading -- 8: Story -- Overview -- Narratology -- Spectator -- Classical paradigm -- Realistic narratives -- Formalistic narratives -- Nonfictional narratives -- Genre and myth -- Further reading -- 9: Writing -- Overview -- Screenwriter -- Screenplay -- North by Northwest: reading version -- Figurative comparisons -- Point of view -- Literary adaptations -- Further reading -- 10: Ideology -- Overview -- Left-center-right model -- Culture, religion, and ethnicity -- Feminism -- Queer cinema -- Tone -- Further reading -- 11: Critique -- Overview -- Theories of realism -- Formalist film theories -- Auteur theory -- Eclectic and synthesizing approaches -- Structuralism and semiology -- Historiography -- Further reading -- 12: Synthesis: Citizen Kane -- Overview -- Photography -- Mise en Scene -- Movement -- Editing -- Sound -- Acting -- Drama -- Story -- Writing -- Ideology -- Critique -- Further reading -- Glossary -- Index.