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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Books Frequently Cited in Text | |
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| Introduction | |
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| French Cinema | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 'The Rogues are Weary' (review of Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi) (April 1954) | |
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| 'Six Characters in Search of auteurs: A Discussion about the French Cinema' (May 1957) | |
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| 'Sufficient Evidence' (review of Roger Vadim's Sait-on jamais?) (July 1957) | |
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| Les 400 Coups (February 1959) | |
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| 'The First Person Plural' (article on Francois Truffaut's Les 400 Coups) (July 1959) | |
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| 'Hiroshima, notre amour' (discussion on Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour) (July 1959) | |
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| American Cinema | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Perspectives | |
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| 'Rediscovering America' (Christmas 1955) | |
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| 'Notes on a Revolution' (Christmas 1955) | |
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| 'The Death of Humphrey Bogart' (February 1957) | |
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| Dossier - Nicholas Ray | |
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| 'On Imagination' (review of The Lusty Men)(October 1953) | |
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| 'A Wonderful Certainty' (review of Johnny Guitar) (April 1955) | |
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| 'Ajax or the Cid?' (review of Rebel Without a Cause) (May 1956) | |
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| 'Nothing but Cinema' (review of Hot Blood) (February 1957) | |
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| 'Beyond the Stars' (review of Bitter Victory) (January 1958) | |
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| Interview with Nicholas Ray (November 1958) | |
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| III. Auteurs | |
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| 'The Genius of Howard Hawks' (May 1953) | |
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| 'The Essential' (review of Otto Preminger's Angel Face) (February 1954) | |
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| 'Serious Things' (review of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window) (April 1955) | |
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| 'The Hand' (review of Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt) (November 1957) | |
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| 'Sam Fuller: In Marlowe's Footsteps' (March 1959) | |
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| Genre | |
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| 'Evolution of the Thriller' (Christmas 1955) | |
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| 'Beauty of a Western' (review of Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie) (January 1956) | |
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| 'An Exemplary Western' (review of Budd Boetticher's Seven Men from Now) (August-September 1957) | |
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| Italian Cinema | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Umberto D (June 1952) | |
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| 'Neo-Realism and Phenomenology' (November 1952) | |
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| 'Letter on Rosseilini' (April 1955) | |
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| 'The Land of Miracles' (review of Roberto Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia) (May 1955) | |
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| Interviews with Roberto Rossellini (July 1954 and April 1959) | |
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| Polemics | |
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| Criticism Introduction | |
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| 'Flattering the Fuzz: Some Remarks on Dandyism and the Practice of Cinema' (May 1951) | |
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| 'Knife in the Wound' (October 1956) | |
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| 'On the politique des auteurs' (April 1957) | |
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| Exchanges about Kurosawa and Mizoguchi (February 1957, March 1957, March 1958) | |
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