Cover -- Studies in Culture and Communication -- Film as social practice -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- General editor's preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The feature film industry -- The feature film today -- The establishment of the feature film -- American domination of the feature film industry -- New competitors, new strategies, new Hollywood -- Suggestions for further work -- Chapter 2 From seventh art to social practice-a history of film studies -- Early aesthetic approaches -- Realist approaches -- Bazin -- Auteurs and genres -- The institutionalization of film studies -- Film as social practice -- Suggestions for further work -- Chapter 3 Film languages -- Culture and language -- Film as a signifying practice -- The signifying systems -- Mise-en-scène -- Reading the film -- Suggestions for further work -- Chapter 4 Film narrative -- The universality of story -- The function of narrative -- Structuralism and narrative -- Codes and conventions -- Genre -- Structuralism, genre, and the western -- Narrative and narration -- Suggestions for further work -- Chapter 5 Film audiences -- Specifying the audience -- Stars -- The film experience -- The film spectator and psychoanalysis -- Audience identification -- Desire and the image -- Audiences, texts, and meanings -- Suggestions for further work -- Chapter 6 Film, culture, and ideology -- Film and national culture -- A national cinema: the Australian revival -- Ideology in the text -- Issues in ideological analysis -- Suggestions for further work -- Chapter 7 Applications -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- Desperately Seeking Susan -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.