导语

  

内容提要

  

    本书探讨了影响电影制作和接收的关键概念、术语和事件，对电影形式进行了分析，并概述了电影作为媒介、艺术形式和经济机构的概况。相比于丛书其他几本，本书更增添了练习题、拓展阅读、要点回顾等环节，非常适合从事电影研究的学生或感兴趣的读者作为教材或读物。

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations and tables
Introduction
Part 1 Cinema as institution
  Chapter 1  Early cinema
  2 US cinema
  3 British cinema
  4 World cinemas
  5 Alternative cinema
  6  Production, distribution and exhibition
  7 Cinema, the media and globalization
Part 2 Film as text
  8 The language of film
  9 Film form and narrative
  10 Film technology
Part 3 Movies and audiences
  11  Cinema, audiences and society
  12 Meaning and spectatorship
  13 Authorship