Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Hooray for a Mickey Mouse subject! / James Donald -- Mapping traditions: North America / Dana Polan. European film scholarship / Ian Aitken. China : cinema, politics, and scholarship / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Paola Voci. Our films, their films : some speculations on writing Indian film history / Brian Shoesmith. Film research in Argentina / David Oubiña. Cinema studies in Brazil / Ismail Xavier. Y tu crítica también : the development of Mexican film studies at home and abroad / Carlos A. Gutiérrez. Australia / Noel King, Constantine Verevis, and Deane Williams. Postcolonial and transnational perspectives / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Disciplinary dialogues: Film and philosophy / Murray Smith. Difficult relations : film studies and continental European philosophy / Hamish Ford. Cinema and art history : film has two eyes / Angela Dalle Vacche. Film and history / Vanessa R. Schwartz. Mass media, anthropology, and ethnography / Faye Ginsburg. Psychoanalysis and cinema / Patrick Fuery. The political economy of film / Tom O'Regan. TV's next season? / Lynn Spigel. Film and cultural studies / Graeme Turner -- Paradigms in perspective: The Hollywood industry paradigm / Ruth Vasey. Formalist tendencies in film studies / Warren Buckland. The persistence of the avant-garde / Michael O'Pray. Film and (as) modernity / Julian Murphet. Cinema/ideology/society : the political expectations of film theory / Jane Gaines. "We do not die twice" : realism and cinema / George Kouvaros. Feminist perspectives in film studies / Alison Butler. Authors and auteurs : the uses of theory / John Caughie. Where sound is : locating the absent aural in film theory / Philip Brophy. The question of genre in cult film and fandom : between contract and discourse / Matt Hills. Film audiences / Jostein Gripsrud and Erlend Lavik. Re-mapping Bollywood cinema : a postcolonial case-study / Vijay Mishra. Film in the context of digital media / Scott McQuire.