Studying the film text: The film text and film form -- Film acting -- Film costume -- Film music -- The film text: theoretical frameworks: Classic film theory and semiotics -- Formalism and neo-formalism -- Impressionism, surrealism, and film theory -- Film and psychoanalysis -- Post-structuralism and deconstruction -- Film and postmodernism -- Film text and context: gender, ideology and identities: Marxism and film -- Feminism and film -- Gay and lesbian criticism -- Queer theory -- Pornography -- Race, ethnicity, and film -- Film and cultural identity -- Film text and context: culture, history, and reception: Film and history -- Sociology and film -- Cultural studies and film -- Film audiences -- Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, and film interpretation

1. Motion Pictures