Film as art: creativity, technology, and business
The significance of film form
Narrative form
The shot: mise-en-scene
The shot: cinematography
The relation of shot to shot: editing
Sound in the cinema
Summary: style and film form
Film genres
Documentary, experimental, and animated films
Film criticism: sample analyses
Historical changes in film art: conventions and choices, tradition and trends

Film Art provides the respected scholarship and analytic tools students need to understand key vocabulary and concepts of film forms, techniques, and history; appreciate a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and the creative choices made by filmmakers to shape the experience of viewers; and analyze films critically and systematically to enrich their understanding and appreciation of any film, in any genre