Auteur criticism and its limitations -- Filmmaking as a cooperative art -- Composing with the camera -- Composing with lenses -- New lenses, new optical systems -- Lighting in the era of orthochrome -- Lighting with panchromatic film -- Lighting with color film -- Basic technology -- The sounds of silence -- The age of optical sound -- The advent of magnetic sound -- Rhetorical structures -- Picaresque structures -- The anti-story -- The actor as icon -- Foundations of film acting: gestural style -- Styles in transition -- Basic principles of editing -- Montage in the silent film -- Montage in the sound film -- The short film

1. Moving Pictures -- Aesthetics