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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Foreword, by David Bordwell
Introduction
Part I: Questioning Media
I Medium Specificity Arguments and the Self-Consciously Invented Arts: Film, Video, and Photography
II The Specificity of Media in the Arts
III Concerning Uniqueness Claims for Photographic and Cinematographic Representation
IV Defining the Moving Image
Part II: Popular Film and TV
V The Power of Movies
VI Toward a Theory of Film Suspense
VII As the Dial Turns: Notes on Soap Operas
VIII Toward a Theory of Point-of-View Editing: Communication, Emotion, and the Movies
IX Notes on Movie Music
X Notes on the Sight Gag
Part III: Avant-Garde and Documentary Film
XI Avant-Garde Film and Film Theory
XII Causation, the Ampliation of Movement and Avant-Garde Film
XIII Language and Cinema: Preliminary Notes for a Theory of Verbal Images
XIV A Note on Film Metaphor
XV From Real to Reel: Entangled in Nonfiction Film
XVI Reply to Carol Brownson and Jack C. Wolf
Part IV: Ideology
XVII The Image of Women in film: A Defense of a Paradigm
XVIII Film, Rhetoric, and Ideology
Part V: The History of Film Theory
XIX Film/Mind Analogies: The Case of Hugo Munsterberg
XX Hans Richter's Struggle for Film
XXI A Brief Comment on Frampton's Notion of Metahistory
Part VI: Polemical Exchanges
XXII Cognitivism, Contemporary Film Theory And Method: A Response to Warren Buckland
XXIII Cracks in the Acoustic Mirror
XXIV A Reply to Health
XXV Replies to Hammett and Allen
Part VII: False Starts
XXVI Film History and Film Theory: An Outline for an Institutional Theory of Film
XXVII Art, Film, and Ideology: A Response to Blaine Allan
XXVIII Toward a Theory of Film Editing
Index
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