The Way Movies Look: The Significance of Stylistic History

Defending and Defining the Seventh Art: The Standard Version of Stylistic History

A Developing Repertoire: The Basic Story

Film Culture and the Basic Story

The Standard Version: Central Assumptions

Coming to Terms with Sound

Bardèche, Brasillach, and the Standard Version

Against the Seventh Art: André Bazin and the Dialectical Program

A New Avant-Garde

The Evolution of Film Language

Toward an Impure Cinema

From Stylistic History to Thematic Criticism

The Return of Modernism: Noël Burch and the Oppositional Program

Radicalizing Form

The Institutional Mode and Its Others

Living Shadows and Distant Observers

Prospects for Progress: Recent Research Programs

Piecemeal History

Culture, Vision, and the Perpetually New

Problems and Solutions

Exceptionally Exact Perceptions: On Staging in DepthIdeology and Depth

Making the Image Intelligible

Dumb Giants

Depth, Découpage, and Camera Movement

Redefining Mise en Scène

Expanding the Image and Compressing Depth

Eclecticism and Archaism

Notes

Index