1. Within the Cinema : The Filmic Fact -- 2. Within the Filmic Fact: The Cinema -- 2.1. 'Cinema' in another sense -- 2.2. From material to codical homogeneity: a premature conclusion -- 2.3. The same code in several 'language systems' -- several codes in the same 'language system' -- 2.4. Cinematic specificity, cinematic language system (I) -- 2.5. Cinematic-filmic, cinematic-non-filmic, filmic-non-cinematic -- 3. Film in an Absolute Sense -- 3.1. 'The Film'/'The Cinema' -- 3.2. The zone common to the film and cinema. Its limits -- 4. Plurality of Cinematic Codes -- 4.1. General and particular codes -- 4.2. Plurality along two axes -- 4.3. 'Cinematic language system' (II) -- 5. From Code to System -- Message to Text -- 5.1. 'The study of films': two different approaches -- 5.2. Code/singular system -- 5.3. General and particular codes (II) -- 5.4. Terminological points -- 5.5. 'Structure of the message' or structure of the text? -- 6. Textual Systems -- 6.1. The film as a unique totality -- 6.2. The system of the film as displacement -- 6.3. Cinematic and extra-cinematic: from duality to mixture -- 6.4. Readings: several textual systems for a single text -- 7. Textuality and 'Singularity' -- 7.1. Filmic texts smaller or larger than a film -- 7.2. Group of films and class of films -- 7.3. From 'particular code' to sub-code (III) -- 7.4. The pansemic tendency of certain figures -- 7.5. Code/sub-code (IV) -- 7.6. The systemic and the textual -- 7.7. Textuality and generality -- 7.8. 'Film' in the absolute sense (II) -- 8. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic -- 8.1. The syntagmatic and the textual -- 8.2. The syntagmatic and the paradigmatic -- syntagmatics and paradigmatics -- 8.3. Degrees of preexistence of the 'object studied' -- 8.4. Circularity of paradigmatics and syntagmatics -- 8.5. Syntagmatic and consecutive.

8.6. Paradigmatic and syntagmatic in textual systems -- 9. The Problem of Distinctive Units -- 9.1. Several types of minimal units in the same text -- 9.2. Several types of cinematic units in the film -- 9.3. The determination of minimal units and the overall study of grammar -- 9.4. Several types of extra-cinematic units in the film -- 9.5. Distinctive units: diversity of size -- 9.6. Distinctive units: diversity of form -- 9.7. Critique of the notion 'cinematic sign' -- 10. 'Specific/Non-Specific': Relativity of the Classification Used -- 10.1. 'Form/material/substance' according to Hjelmslev -- 10.2. Semiotic interference between language systems -- 10.3. Distinctive features of the material of the signifier -- 10.4. The intermixing of specificities: Multiple specificity, degrees of specificity, modes of specificity -- 10.5 Cinema and television -- 10.6. Language system as a combination of codes -- 10.7. Non-specific codes. Codes of content and codes of expression -- 10.8. Hjelmslev reconsidered: 'substance' -- 11. Cinema and writing -- 11.1. Cinema and writing as recordings -- 11.2. Cinema and writing as transmissions -- 11.3. Cinema and writing as 'printings' -- 11.4. Cinema and writing as 'compositions' -- 11.5. The cinema in relation to the 'writings' of Writing Degree Zero -- 11.6. Cinema and ideography -- Conclusion: Cinematic Language System and Filmic Writing -- References -- Subject index -- Index of Names -- Index of Films.