PART ONE
Understanding Film
Graeme Turner INTRODUCTION 11
1 Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott TEXTS AND THEIR READINGS 14
2 Annette Kuhn WOMEN'S GENRES 20
3 Judith Mayne PARADOXES OF SPECTATORSHIP 28
4 Janet Staiger RECEPTION STUDIES IN FILM AND
TELEVISION 46

PART TWO
Technologies
Graeme Turner INTRODUCTION 73
5 Edward Buscombe SOUND AND COLOUR 77
6 Steve Neale COLOUR AND FILM AESTHETICS 85
7 Richard Dyer LIGHTING FOR WHITENESS 95
8 Gianluca Sergi A CRY IN THE DARK: THE ROLE OF THE POST-CLASSICAL FILM SOUND 107
9 Stephen Prince TRUE LIES: PERCEPTUAL REALISM,
DIGITAL IMAGES AND FILM THEORY 115
10 Barbara Creed
THE CYBERSTAR: DIGITAL PLEASURES AND
THE END OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 129

PART THREE
Industries
Graeme Turner INTRODUCTION 135
11 Tom O'Regan A NATIONAL CINEMA 139
12 John Hill BRITISH CINEMA AS NATIONAL CINEMA: PRODUCTION, AUDIENCE AND REPRESENTATION 165
13 Stephen Teo POSTMODERNISM AND THE END OF HONG KONG CINEMA 174
14 Thomas Schatz THE NEW HOLLYWOOD 184
15 Tino Balio 'A MAJOR PRESENCE IN ALL THE WORLD'S IMPORTANT MARKETS': THE GLOBALIZATION OF HOLLYWOOD IN THE 1990s 206

PART FOUR
Meanings and pleasures
Graeme Turner INTRODUCTION 210
16 Richard Dyer MONROE AND SEXUALITY: DESIRABILITY 223
17 P. David Marshall THE CINEMATIC APPARATUS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FILM CELEBRITY 228
18 Jane Feuer SPECTATORS AND SPECTACLES 240
19 Stella Bruzzi DESIRE AND THE COSTUME FILM: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE PIANO 246
20 Tania Modleski THE TERROR OF PLEASURE: THE CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILM AND POSTMODERN
THEORY 268
21 Jim Collins GENERICITY IN THE NINETIES: ECLECTIC IRONY AND THE NEW SINCERITY 276

PART FIVE
Identities
Graeme Turner INTRODUCTION 291
22 Yvonne Tasker ACTION HEROINES IN THE 198os: THE LIMITS OF 'MUSCULINITY' 295
23 Sabrina Barton YOUR SELF STORAGE: FEMALE INVESTIGATION AND MALE PERFORMATIVITY IN THE WOMAN'S PSYCHOTHRILLER 311
24 Chris Straayer THE HYPOTHETICAL LESBIAN HEROINE
IN NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM 331
25 Susan Jeffords CAN MASCULINITY BE TERMINATED? 344
26 Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer DE MARGIN AND DE CENTRE 355
27 Ella Shohat and Robert Stam THE IMPERIAL
IMAGINARY 366

PART SIX
Audiences and consumption
Graeme Turner INTRODUCTION 379
28 Justin Wyatt HIGH CONCEPT AND MARKET RESEARCH: MOVIE MAKING BY THE NUMBERS 382
29 Miriam Hansen CHAMELEON AND CATALYST: THE
CINEMA AS AN ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC SPHERE 390
30 Jackie Stacey HOLLYWOOD CINEMA: THE GREAT
ESCAPE 420
31 Jacqueline Bobo WATCHING THE COLOR PURPLE: TWO INTERVIEWS 444
32 Mark Jancovich 'A REAL SHOCKER': AUTHENTICITY,
GENRE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DISTINCTION 469