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Part 1: Really useful theory; from aesthetics to semiotics and half-wayback again; why theory?; film theory and the revolt against masternarratives; case study - "Singin' in the Rain" - a study ofinterpretation; who (and what) is it for? Part 2: Film as mass culture;dream factory; the publicness of cinema; case study - the politicalculture of address in a "Transitional Cinema" - Indian popular cinema;reception theory and audience research - the mystery of the vampire'skiss; re-examining stardom - questions of texts, bodies, andperformances. Part 3: questions of aesthetics; after the classic, theclassical and ideology - the difference of realism; rethinking genre;case study - judging audiences, the case of the trial movie;introducing film evaluation; "Style" posture and idiom - Tarantino'sfigures of masculinity. Part 4: The return to history; what is filmhistory?; "Animated Pictures" - tales of cinema's forgotten future,after one hundred years of film; the mass production of the senses -classical cinema as cenacular modernism; case study - discipline andfun - psycho and postmodern cinema. Part 5: Cinema in the age of globalmulti-media; film theory and spectatorship in the age of the "posts";case study - digging an old well - the labour of social fantasy in acontemporary Chinese film; facing up to Hollywood; the end of cinema -multi-media and technological change.