Preparing viewers and views: distribution, promotion, and exhibition -- Exploring a material world: mise-en-scè€ne -- Seeing through the image: cinematography -- Relating images: editing -- Listening to the cinema: film sound -- Telling stories about time: narrative films -- Other cinematic shapes: documentary and experimental films -- Rituals, conventions, archetypes, and formulas: movie genres -- Conventional film history: evolutions, masterpieces, and periodization -- Global and local: inclusive histories of the movies -- Reading about film: critical methods and theories -- Writing a film essay: observations, arguments, research, and analysis.
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