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Part 1 Making films mean: interpretation as construction; meaning made;interpretive doctrines. Part 2 Routines and practices: Interpretation, Inc;the logic of discovery, or, problem-solving; the logic of justification, or,rhetoric; an anatomy of interpretation. Part 3 Interpretation as explication:the French connection; explication academicized; picture planes; meaning andunity. Part 4 Symptomatic interpretation: culture, dream, and Lauren Bacall;myth as antinomy; systeme a la mode; the contradictory text; symptoms andexplications. Part 5 Semantic fields: meanings in structures; structures ofmeaning; the role of semantic fields. Part 6 Schemata and heuristics: mappingas making; knowledge structures and routines; mapping as modeling. Part 7 Twobasic schemata: is there a class for this text?; making films personal. Part8 Text schemata: a bull's-eye schema; meaning, inside out and outside in;textual trajectories; doctrines into diachronies. Part 9 Interpretation asrhetoric: sample strategies; theory talk. Part 10 Rhetoric in action - sevenmodels of "Psycho": "Hitch and his public" (1960), Jean Duochet; "Psycho",Hitchcock's films (1965), Robin Wood; "inside Norman Bates", films andfeelings (1967), Raymond Durgnat; "the world and its image", film as film(1972), V.F. Perkins; "psychosis, neurosis, perversion" (1979), RaymondBellour; "Psycho - the instiutionalization of female sexuality" (1982),Barbara Klinger; "links in a chain - Psycho and film classicism" (1986),Leland Poague. Part 11 Why not read a film: the ends of interpretation; theend of interpretation?; prospects for a poetics.