ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: RECURRENT PROBLEMS IN CINEMA THEORY -- 1. Theories of Cinema -- 2. The Early Theorists -- 3. Four Recurring Problems -- 4. Summary -- CHAPTER 3: FILM AS LANGUAGE -- 1. Filmolinguistics -- 2. Theory, Methodology, and Metz -- 3. Subjective Phenomena as Data and Analysis -- 4. The Grande Syntagmatique: An Assessment -- 5. Poetry, Symbolism, and Cinema -- CHAPTER 4: A LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO CINEMA THEORY -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Phrase Structure Grammar -- 3. Acceptability -- CHAPTER 5: TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE CINEMA GRAMMAR -- 1. Inadequacies of Phrase Structure Grammar -- 2. Transformational-Generative Grammar -- 3. Some Implications -- CHAPTER 6: DELETION AS A CASE STUDY -- 1. What Isn't There in Cinema and Language -- 2. A Taxonomy of Deletion Types in Cinema -- 3. The Representation of Deletion in the Grammar -- 4. Explanatory Adequacy -- 5. Universals -- CHAPTER 7: ACTIONS AND SHOTS AS PSYCHOLOGICAL UNITS -- 1. The Psychological Reality of Cinema Grammar -- 2. Cinema Perception: Experiment 1 -- 3. Cinema Perception: Experiment 2 -- 4. Extending the Analysis of Cinema Perception -- CHAPTER 8: THE PLACE OF CINEMA GRAMMAR IN CINEMA THEORY -- 1. Overview -- 2. Grammar and Perception -- 3. Grammar and Aesthetics -- CHAPTER 9: EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: DESCRIPTIONS OF EXPERIMENTAL SCENES FOR EXPERIMENTS 1 AND 2 -- REFERENCES.