Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CHAPTER ONE The Cognitive Turn in Film Theory -- The Language Analysis Tradition -- Noam Chomsky and the Study of Competence -- Chapter Contents -- CHAPTER TWO The Body on Screen and in Frame -- Disembodied Structures and Schemata in Film Theory: Metz, Bordwell, Colin -- Cognitive Semantics -- A Cognitive Semantics of Film -- CHAPTER THREE Not What Is Seen through the Window but the Window Itself -- Reflexivity, Metalanguage, Anaphora -- Francesco Casetti on 'Personal' Filmic Enunciation -- Christian Metz on Impersonal Filmic Enunciation -- Deixis, Television, and Digital Colorization -- The Impossibility of Textual Analysis? -- CHAPTER FOUR The Institutional Context -- Meaning, Context, and the Mind -- Meaning Minus Semantics -- The Space of Filmic Communication -- Modes -- Operations -- Institutions -- The Documentary, Home Movie, and 'Dynamic' Modes of Filmmaking -- CHAPTER FIVE All in the Mind? -- Transformational Generative Grammar -- ''The Grande Syntagmatique Revisited'' (Michel Colin) -- Generative Theories of Film Grammar -- Film Semiotics and Cognitive Science -- Conclusion -- Post-Theory? -- Notes -- Chapter One. The Cognitive Turn in Film Theory -- Chapter Two. The Body on Screen and in Frame -- Chapter Three. Not What Is Seen through the Window but the Window Itself -- Chapter Four. The Institutional Context -- Chapter Five. All in the Mind? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- General -- Film Studies -- Index.