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| * New to the Third Edition | |
| ** Significantly revised for the Third Edition | |
| Looking at Movies | |
| Looking at Movies | |
| What Is a Movie? | |
| Ways of Looking at Movies | |
| Principles of Film Form | |
| Film Form | |
| Form and Content | |
| Form and Expectations | |
| Patterns | |
| Fundamentals of Film Form | |
| Realism and Antirealism | |
| Cinematic Language | |
| Types of Movies | |
| The Idea of Narrative | |
| Types of Movies | |
| Hybrid Movies | |
| Genre | |
| Six Major American Genres | |
| Evolution and Transformation of Genre | |
| What about Animation? | |
| Elements of Narrative | |
| What Is Narrative? | |
| The Screenwriter | |
| Elements of Narrative | |
| Looking at Narrative: John Ford's Stagecoach | |
| Mise-en-Scène | |
| What Is Mise-en-Scène? | |
| Design | |
| Composition | |
| Looking at Mise-en-Scène | |
| Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow | |
| Sam Mendes's American Beauty | |
| Michael Almereyda's Hamlet | |
| Cinematography | |
| What Is Cinematography? | |
| The Director of Photography | |
| Cinematographic Properties of the Shot | |
| Framing of the Shot | |
| Speed and Length of the Shot | |
| Special Effects | |
| Acting | |
| What Is Acting? | |
| The Evolution of Screen Acting | |
| Technology and Acting | |
| Casting Actors | |
| Aspects of Performance | |
| How Filmmaking Affects Acting | |
| Looking at Acting | |
| Barbara Stanwyck in King Vidor's Stella Dallas | |
| Hilary Swank in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby | |
| Editing | |
| What Is Editing? | |
| The Film Editor | |
| Major Approaches to Editing: Continuity and Discontinuity | |
| Looking at Editing | |
| Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's City of God | |
| Sound | |
| What Is Sound? | |
| Sound Production | |
| Describing Film Sound | |
| Sources of Film Sound | |
| Types of Film Sound | |
| Functions of Film Sound | |
| Sound in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane | |
| Film History | |
| What Is Film History? | |
| Basic Approaches to Studying Film History | |
| A Short Overview of Film History to 1947 | |
| 1947-Present: New Cinemas in Great Britain, Europe, and Asia | |
| 1965-1995: The New American Cinema | |
| Filmmaking Technologies and Production Systems | |
| The Whole Equation | |
| Film, Video, and Digital Technologies: An Overview | |
| How a Movie Is Made | |
| The Studio System | |
| The Independent System | |
| Financing in the Industry | |
| Marketing and Distribution | |
| Production in Hollywood Today | |
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