About At the Movies List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures Preface A Case Study Approach Margaret and David as Cultural Mediators Reviewing as Performance Acknowledgements Chapter 1. At the Movies , Reviewing, and Screenwriting From Elective to Selective Affinities Film Reviewing Two approaches: Functionalism and rhetoric Shifting the criticism/reviewing distinction Screenwriting Chapter 2. At the Movies and its Influence The Business of Managing the Review Process Debunking the powerful critic theory The Margaret and David Effect A Variable Cultural Field: From Restricted to Large-Scale The Persona of the Critic The Responsibilities of the Reviewer Proximity to industry The Australian new wave Chapter 3. Arbiters of taste. Inside the Gut Where the Reviewer Sits Summary Judgements The Gospel According to David and Margaret Taste, Taste Culture, or Cultural Forum Chapter 4. The Politics of Classification Ken Park (2002) Romper Stomper (1992) Wolf Creek 2 (2013) Chapter 5. Three Discourse Frames (Australia, 1987-2002) Frame 1: Funding Methods and Creative Outcomes Frame 2: The Crisis in the Film Industry and the Script as Problematic Object Frame 3: The Doxa Chapter 6. The Discursive Construction of Screenwriting in At the Movies (2004-2014) Method Coding: Script, Screenplay, Screenwriter Analysis Chapter 7.
The Well-Made Screenplay: At the Movies as an Aesthetic Enterprise Performing the Doxa Problematizations and Conclusions Chapter 8. In Interview: David Stratton on Reviewing and At the Movies Chapter 9. In Interview: Margaret Pomeranz on Reviewing and At the Movies Appendix 1: Notes on method, verification and exclusions Appendix 2: 'Written by' Appendix 3: DVD classics Appendix 4: Selective reference list of descriptors used by Margaret and David.