Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One. State of the Art -- 1. Contemporary Film Studies and the Vicissitudes of Grand Theory (David Bordwell) -- 2. Prospects for Film Theory: A Personal Assessment (Noël Carroll) -- Part Two. Film Theory and Aesthetics -- 3. Psychoanalytic Film Theory and the Problem of the Missing Spectator (Stephen Prince) -- 4. Convention, Construction, and Cinematic Vision (David Bordwell) -- 5. Is a Cognitive Approach to the Avant-garde Cinema Perverse? (James Peterson) -- 6. The Logic and Legacy of Brechtianism (Murray Smith) -- 7. Characterization and Fictional Truth in the Cinema (Paisley Livingston) -- 8. Empathy and (Film) Fiction (Alex Neill) -- 9. Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films (Cynthia A. Freeland) -- 10. Apt Feelings, or Why "Women's Films" Aren't Trivial (Flo Leibowitz) -- 11. Unheard Melodies? A Critique of Psychoanalytic Theories of Film Music (Jeff Smith) -- 12. Film Music and Narrative Agency (Jerrold Levinson) -- 13. Nonfiction Film and Postmodernist Skepticism (Noël Carroll) -- 14. Moving Pictures and the Rhetoric of Nonfiction Film: Two Approaches (Carl Plantinga) -- 15. Film, Reality, and Illusion (Gregory Currie) -- Part Three. Psychology of Film -- 16. The Case for an Ecological Metatheory (Joseph Anderson and Barbara Anderson) -- 17. Movies in the Mind's Eye (Julian Hochberg and Virginia Brooks) -- 18. Notes on Audience Response (Richard J. Gerrig and Deborah A. Prentice) -- Part Four. History and Analysis -- 19. Toward a New Media Economics (Douglas Gomery) -- 20. Columbia Pictures: The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930−1943 (Tino Balio) -- 21. "A Brief Romantic Interlude": Dick and Jane Go to 3 1/2 Seconds of the Classical Hollywood Cinema (Richard Malthy) -- 22. The Jazz Singer's Reception in the Media and at the Box Office (Donald Crafton).

23. Jameson and "Global Aesthetics" (Michael Walsh) -- 24. Reconstructing Japanese Film (Donald Kirihara) -- 25. Danish Cinema and the Politics of Recognition (Mette Hjort) -- 26. Whose Apparatus? Problems of Film Exhibition and History (Vance Kepley, Jr.) -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.