How To Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond Book

Introduction
I. Film as Art
The Nature of Art Ways of Looking at Art Film, Recording, and the Other Arts The Structure of Art
II. Technology: Image and Sound
Art and Technology The Lens The Camera The Filmstock The Soudtrack Post-Production Video and Film Projection
III. The Language of Film: Signs and Syntax
Signs Syntax
IV. The Shape of Film History
Movies/Film/Cinema
"Movies": Economics
"Film": Politics
"Cinema": Aesthetics
V. Film Theory: Form and Function
The Critic The Poet and the Philosopher: Lindsay and Munsterberg Expressionism and Realism: Arnheim and Kracauer Montage: Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Balazs, and Formalism Mise en Scene: Neorealism, Bazin, and Godard Film Speaks and Acts: Metz and Contemporary Theory
VI. Media: The Middle of Things
Community Print and Electronic Media The Technology of Mechanical and Electronic Media Radio and Records Television and Video
VII. Multimedia: The Digital Revolution
The Digital Revolution The Myth of Multimedia The Myth of Virtual Reality The Myth of Cyberspace
"What is to be Done?"
Film and Media: A Chronology
Reading About Film and Media
Index