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Part 1 Introduction: classic film theory; semiotics; politics andideology; politics and subjectivity; politics and gender. Part 2 Vision andphantasy: fetishism, Sigmund Freud; the mirror stage, Jacques Lacan. Ideologyand subjectivity: cinema, ideology, criticism 1, Louis Comolli and JeanNarboni; realism and the cinema - notes on some Brechtian theses, ColinMacCabe; class and allegory in contemporary mass culture - "Dog DayAfternoon" as a political film, Fredric Jameson. Part 3 Gender and the gaze:visual pleasure and narrative cinema, Laura Mulvey; afterthoughts on "VisualPleasure and Narrative Cinema"; double indemnity, Claire Johnston; from"Fantasia", Liz Cowie; from "The Desire to Desire", Mary Ann Doane; from"Casablanca" to "Pretty Woman" - the politics of romance, Rob Lapsley andMichael Westlake.