The Oxford guide to film studies / edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson ; consultant editors, Richard Dyer, E. Ann Kaplan, Paul Willemen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General Introduction / John Hill -- Pt. 1. Critical Approaches. 1. Introduction to film studies / Richard Dyer. Studying the film text. 2. The film text and film form / Robert P. Kolker -- Reading: Written on the Wind / Robin Wood -- Reading: Citizen Kane / Peter Wollen. 3. Film acting / Paul McDonald. 4. Film costume / Pamela Church Gibson. 5. Film music / Claudia Gorbman. The film text: theoretical frameworks. 6. Classic film theory and semiotics / Antony Easthope. 7. Formalism and neo-formalism / Ian Christie -- Reading: Poetry and prose in cinema / Viktor Shklovsky. 8. Impressionism, surrealism, and film theory / Robert B. Ray. 9. Film and psychoanalysis / Barbara Creed. 10. Post-structuralism and deconstruction / Peter Brunette. 11. Film and postmodernism / John Hill. Film text and context: gender, ideology, and identities. 12. Marxism and film / Chuck Kleinhans -- Reading: The political thriller debate / John Hill.

13. Feminism and film / Patricia White -- Readings Rebecca / Mary Ann Doane -- Reading: Rebecca / Tania Modleski. 14. Gay and lesbian criticism / Anneke Smelik. 15. Queer theory / Alexander Doty. 16. Pornography / Laura Kipnis. 17. Race, ethnicity, and film / Robyn Wiegman. 18. Film and cultural identity / Rey Chow. Film text and context: culture, history, and reception. 19. Film and history / Dudley Andrew. 20. Sociology and film / Andrew Tudor. 21. Cultural studies and film / Graeme Turner. 22. Film audiences / Jostein Gripsrud. 23. Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, and film interpretation / Noel King -- Pt. 2. American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches. American cinema: history, industry, and interpretation. 1. American cinema and film history / John Belton. 2. History and cinema technology / Duncan Petrie. 3. Hollywood as industry / Douglas Gomery. 4. Early American film / Tom Gunning.

5. Classical Hollywood film and melodrama / E. Ann Kaplan -- Reading: Casablanca / Richard Maltby -- Reading: Casablanca / Rick Altman. 6. Post-classical Hollywood / Peter Kramer. Critical concepts. 7. Authorship and Hollywood / Stephen Crofts -- Reading: John Ford / Peter Wollen. 8. Genre and Hollywood / Tom Ryall -- Reading: Body Genres / Linda Williams. 9. The star system and Hollywood / Jeremy G. Butler. Politics and society. 10. Hollywood film and society / Douglas Kellner -- Reading: Hollywood and ideology / Robert B. Ray. 11. Film policy: Hollywood and beyond / Albert Moran. 12. Hollywood and the world / Toby Miller -- Pt. 3. World Cinema: Critical Approaches. Redefining cinema: International and avant-garde alternatives. 1. Concepts of national cinema / Stephen Crofts. 2. Modernism and the avant-gardes / Murray Smith. 3. Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory / Ashish Rajadhyaksha. Redefining cinema: other genres.

4. The documentary / John Izod and Richard Kilborn. 5. The animated film / Michael O'Pray. European cinema. 6. Issues in European cinema / Ginette Vincendeau. Case-Studies: Movements, Moments, and Filmmakers. 7. The avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930 / Ian Christie. 8. Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realism / Simona Monticelli. 9. The French Nouvelle Vague / Jilt Forbes. 10. New German Cinema / Ulrike Sieglohr. 11. East Central European cinema / Daniel J. Goulding. 12. European film policy and the response to Hollywood / Armand Mattelart. 13. Directors and stars. (a). Jean Renoir / Keith Reader. (b). Ingmar Bergman / Chris Darke. (c). Chantal Akerman / Cathy Fowler. (d). Pedro Almodovar / Jose Arroyo. (e). Luc Besson / Susan Hayward. (f). Brigitte Bardot / Ginette Vincendeau. Angiophone national cinemas. Case-Studies. 14. British cinema / Andrew Higson. 15. Ireland and cinema / Martin McLoone. 16. Australian cinema / Elizabeth Jacka.

17. Canadian cinema / Will Straw. World cinema. 18. Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake. Case-Studies: Cinemas of the World. 19. Indian cinema / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Reading: Popular Hindi cinema / Rosle Thomas. 20. Chinese cinema / Berenice Reynaud. 21. Hong Kong cinema. a. Discovery and pre-discovery / Stephen Teo. b. China and 1997 / N. K. Leung. 22. Taiwanese New Cinema / Kuan-Hsing Chen. 23. Japanese cinema / Freda Freiberg. 24. African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike -- Reading: Hyenas / Richard Porton. 25. South American cinema / Julianne Burton-Carvajal. Redefining cinema: film in a changing age. 26. Film and changing technologies / Laura Kipnis. 27. Film and television / John Hill.