Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Preface.- PART ONE: CRITICISM.- Shadow Play and Dripping Teat: The Night of the Hunter (1955); T.Gunning.- Between Melodrama and Realism: Under the Skin of the City (2001); L.Mulvey.

- Internalising the Musical: The Band Wagon (1953); A.Klevan.- The Visitor's Discarded Clothes in Theorem (1968); S.Bruzzi.- Style and Sincerity in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); J.Walters.- The Moves: Blood (1989); A.

Martin.- The Properties of Images: Lust for Life (1956); S.Neale.- Two Views Over Water: Action and Absorption in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957); E.Gallafent.- Making an Entrance: Bette Davis's First Appearance in Jezebel (1938); M.Shingler.- A Narrative Parenthesis in Life is Beautiful (1997); D.

Thomas.- The End of Summer: Conte d'été (1996); J.Leigh.- Enter Lisa: Rear Window (1954); D.Pye.- Opening Up The Secret Garden (1993); S.Smith.- A Magnified Meeting in Written on the Wind (1956); S.

Peacock.- 'Everything is connected, and everything matters': Relationships in I [heart] Huckabees (2004); J.Gibbs.- The Ending of 8 ½ (1963); R.Dyer.- PART TWO: HISTORY.- Haptic Vision and Consumerism: a Moment from Fritz Lang's Siegfried (1924); T.Elsaesser.

- Visions of Sound: City Lights (1931); C.Barr.- 'Entertainment and dystopia': Maurice Chevalier Performs Avec le sourire (1936); T.Brown.- Music, Crime and the Gaze: La Bête humaine (1938); G.Vincendeau.- Thunder and Lightning: Gone with the Wind (1939) and the Logic of Synchronisation; R.Altman.

- Hearing, Fearing: the Sonic Design of Suspense in Cat People (1942); H.Hanson.- 'I've seen him take his knife.': The Searchers (1956); R.J.Ellis.- Another Story: Myth and History in Bonnie and Clyde (1967); P.Cook.

- A Sculptural Moment: the Epilogue to Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent (1971); M.Broughton.- Star Wars (1977): Back and Forth in Time and Space; J.Bignell.- Between Freedom and Confinement: Music in The World (2004); C.Gorbman.- PART THREE: THEORY.- Performance, with Strings Attached: Team America's (2004) Snub to the Act∨ A.

Clayton.- Éloge de l'amour (2001): Moments in Time; A.Butler.- Contested Endings: Interpreting The Piano's (1993) Final Scenes; B.Klinger.- Mourning, Loss and Trauma, and the Ambiguities of Proper and Improper Desire in Exotica (1994); E.Cowie.- Stepping Out of Blockbuster Mode: the Lighting of the Beacons in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003); K.

Thompson.- Dorothy's Dream: Mindscreen in The Wizard of Oz (1939); B.F.Kawin.- Looking On and Looking the Other Way: Hotel Rwanda (2004) and the Racialised Ethics of Spectatorship; M.Aaron.- Working Through the Body: Textual-Corporeal Strategies in United 93 (2006); L.Purse.

- 'I wasn't expecting that!': Cognition and Shock in Alien's (1979) Chestburster Sce≠ J.Frome.- The Inflection of a Dream in Scarlet Street (1945); G.M.Wilson.- Judy's Plan: a Reading of the 'Flashback' Sequence in Vertigo (1958); W.Rothman.- Index.