Preface Acknowledgements List of illustrations and tables Introduction Part 1 Cinema as institution Chapter 1 Early cinema 2 US cinema 3 British cinema 4 World cinemas 5 Alternative cinema 6 Production, distribution and exhibition 7 Cinema, the media and globalization Part 2 Film as text 8 The language of film 9 Film form and narrative 10 Film technology Part 3 Movies and audiences 11 Cinema, audiences and society 12 Meaning and spectatorship 13 Authorship