Part 1. Structures of Filmic Narrative
Introduction: The Saussurian Impulse and Cinema Semiotics
1. "Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrational Principles and Procedures", by David Bordwell
2. "Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film", by Christian Metz
3. "Segmenting/Analyzing", by Raymond Bellour
4. "The Obvious and the Code", by Raymond Bellour
5. "The Spectator-in-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach", by Nick Browne
6. "Godard and Counter-Cinema: Vent d' Est", by Peter Wollen
7. "The Concept of Cinematic Excess", by Kristin Thompson
8. "Uncoded Images in the Heterogeneous Text", by Deborah Linderman
Part 2: Subject, Narrative, Cinema
Introduction: Text and Subject
9. "Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein", by Roland Barthes
10. "Theory and Film: Principles of Realism and Pleasure", by Colin MacCabe
11. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", by Laura Mulvey
12. "Voyeurism, The Look, and Dwoskin",, by Paul Willemen
13. "Suture" (excerpts), by Kaja Silverman
14. "Ellipsis on Dread and the Specular Seduction", by Julia Kristeva
15. "The Imaginary Signifier" (excerpts), by Christian Metz
Part 3: Apparatus
Introduction
16. "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus", by Jean-Louis Baudry
17. "The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema", by Jean-Louis Baudry
18. "The Silences of the Voice", by Pascal Bonitzer
19. "The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space", by Mary Ann Doane
20. "Acinema", by Jean François Lyotard
21. "Through the Looking-Glass", by Teresa de Lauretis
Part 4: Textuality as Ideology
Introduction
22. "Narrative Space", by Stephen Heath
23. "Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field" (Parts 3 and 4), by Jean-Louis Comolli
24. "John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln", by Editors of Cahiers du cinéma
25. "Primitivism and the Avant-Gardes: A Dialectical Approach", by Noël Burch
26. "Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions", by Linda Williams
27. "Primary Identification and the Historical Subject: Fassbinder and Germany", by Thomas Elsaesser