Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Correcting Art Cinema's Partial Vision -- Part 1. Art, Auteurism, and the World -- 1. Art as Genre as Canon: Defining "Art Cinema" -- 2. No Start, No End: Auteurism and the Auteur Theory -- 3. From "Foreign Films" to "World Cinema" -- Part 2. Formats and Fetishes -- 4. Recovery and Legitimation in the Traditional Art Film -- 5. Losing the Asterisk: A Theory of Cult-Art Cinema -- 6. Revisiting "The Two Avant-Gardes" -- 7. Sucking the Mainstream: A Theory of Mainstream Art Cinema -- Part Three. Institutions and Distributions -- 8. Re-integrating Stardom (. . . or Technology or Reception or . . .) -- 9. Art Cinema as Institution: Art Houses, Film Festivals, and Film Studies -- 10. Art Cinema, the Distribution Theory -- Epilogue. Beyond, Before Cinephilia -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.