The Beginnings 18

The Essence of Cinema 33

Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School 47

The Frankfurt School 64

The Cult of the Auteur 83

The Advent of Structuralism 102

The Question of Film Language 107

Interrogating Authorship and Genre 123

The Classic Realist Text 140

The Search for Alternative Aesthetics 153

The Feminist Intervention 169

Textual Analysis 185From Text to Intertext 201

The Rise of Cultural Studies 223

Semiotics Revisited 248

The Coming Out of Queer Theory 262

Third Cinema Revisited 281

The Poetics and Politics of Postmodernism 298

Digital Theory and the New Media 314

The Pluralization of Film Theory 327

Select Bibliography 341

Index 369
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