Preparing viewers and views: distribution, promotion, and exhibition
Exploring a material world: mise-en-scène
Seeing through the image: cinematography
Listening to the cinema: film sound
Telling stories about time: narrative films
Other cinematic shapes: documentary and experimental films
Rituals, conventions, archetypes, and formulas: movie genres
Conventional film history: evolutions, masterpieces, and periodization
Global and local: inclusive histories of the movies
Reading about film: critical methods and theories
Writing a film essay: observations, arguments, research, and analysis.
