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| General Introduction | |
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| Really Useful Theory | |
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| Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Sheffield Hallam University: From Aesthetics to Semiotics and Half-Way Back Again | |
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| Gill Branston, Cardiff University: Why Theory | |
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| Bill Nichols, San Francisco State University: Film Theory and the Revolt against Master Narratives | |
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| Steven Cohan, Syracuse University: Case Study: Singin' in the Rain: A Study of Interpretation | |
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| Tessa Perkins, Sheffield Hallam University: Who (and What) Is It For? | |
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| Film as Mass Culture | |
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| Jane M. Gaines, Duke University: Dream/Factory | |
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| James Donald, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, and Stephanie Donald, Murdoch University: The Publicness of Cinema | |
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| Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi: Case Study: The Political Culture of Address in a "Transitional Cinema": Indian Popular Cinema | |
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| Henry Jenkins, MIT: Reception Theory and Audience Research: The Mystery of the Vampire's Kiss | |
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| Christine Geraghty, Goldsmith's College, University of London: Re-examining Stardom: Questions of Texts, Bodies, and Performances | |
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| Questions of Aesthetics | |
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| Christopher Williams, University of Westminster: After the Classic, the Classical and Ideology: the Differences of Realism | |
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| Christine Gledhill, Staffordshire University: Rethinking Genre | |
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| Carol Clover, University of California, Berkeley: Case Study: Judging Audiences, the Case of the Trial Movie | |
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| Noel Carroll, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Introducing Film Evaluation | |
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| Sharon Willis, University of Rochester: "Style", Posture and Idiom: Tarantino's Figures of Masculinity | |
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| The Return to History | |
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| Vivian Sobchack, UCLA: What is Film History? | |
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| Tom Gunning: "Animated Pictures": Tales of Cinema's Forgotten Future, After One Hundred Years of Film | |
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| Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago: The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism | |
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| Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley: Case Study: Discipline and Fun: Psycho and Postmodern Cinema | |
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| Cinema in the Age of Global Multi-Media | |
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| Robert Stam, New York University, and Ella Shohat, City University of New York: Film Theory and Spectatorship in the Age of the "Posts" | |
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| Rey Chow, University of California, Irvine: Case Study: Digging an Old Well: The Labor of Social Fantasy in a Contemporary Chinese Film | |
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| Tulane University: Facing Up to Hollywood | |
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| Anne Friedberg, University of California, Irvine: The End of Cinema: Multi-Media and Technological Change | |