Part 1 Film Art and Filmmaking
    1. Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business

Part 2 Film Form
    2. The Significance of Film Form
    3. Narrative Form

Part 3 Film Style
    4. The Shot: Mise-en-Scene
    5. The Shot: Cinematography
    6. The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing
    7. Sound in the Cinema
    8. Summary: Style as a Formal System

Part 4 Types of Films
    9. Film Genres
  10. Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films

Part 5 Critical Analysis of Films
  11. Film Criticism: Sample Analyses
        Appendix: Writing a Critical Analysis of a Film

Part 6 Film History
  12. Historical Changes in Film Art: Conventions and Choices, Tradition and Trends