Part 1: Texts and their readings, Janet Woollacott; women's genres, Annette Kuhn; paradoxes of spectatorship, Judith Mayne; reception studies in film and television, Janet Staiger. Part 2 - Technologies: sound and colour, Edward Buscombe; colour and film aesthetics, Steve Neale; lighting for whiteness, Richard Dyer; a cry in the dark - the role of post-classical film sound, Gianluca Sergi; true lies - perceptual realism, digital images and film theory, Stephen Prince; the cyberstar - digital pleasures, and the end of the unconscious, Barbara Creed. Part 3 - Industries: a national cinema, Tom O' Regan; British cinema as a national cinema - production, audience and representation, John Hill; postmodernism and the end of Hong Kong cinema, Stephen Teo; the new Hollywood, Thomas Schatz; a major presence in all the world's important ma rkets - the globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s, Tino Balio. Part 4 - Meanings and pleasures: Monroe and sexuality - desirability, Richard Dyer; the cinematic apparatus and the construction of the film celebrity, P. David Marshall; spectators and spectacles, Jane Feuer; desire and the costume film: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Age of Innocence, The Piano; the terror of pleasure - the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory, Tania Modleski; genericity in the 90s - eclectic irony and the new sincerity, Jim Collins. Part 5 - Identities: action heroines in the 1980s - the limits of masculinity, Yvonne Tasker; your self storage - female investigation and male performativity in the woman's psychothriller, Sabrina Barton; the hypothetical lesbian heroine in narrative feature film, Chris Straayer; can masculinity be terminated? Susan Jeffords; de margin and de centre, Issac Julien and Kobena Mercer; the imperial imaginary, Ella Shohart and Robert Stam. Part 6 - Audiences and consumption: high concept and market research - movie marketing by the numbers, Justin Wyatt; charmeleon and catalyst - the cinema as an alternative public sphere, Miriam Hansen; Hollywood cinema - the great escape, Jackie Stacey; watching The Color Purple - two interviews, Jacqueline Bobo; a real shocker - authenticity, genre and the struggle for distinction, Mark Jancovich.
