The first camera and projection system: the cinématographe
Casablanca: the star system at work
Brief Encounter: social class and sexual restraint
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari: expressing insanity
Battleship Potemkin: two shots indicating Eisenstein's graphic conflict
Un chien andalou: the shock of surrealism
The Dogme 95 Manifesto
Monty Python, swearing and certification
A typical lighting set-up
Mise en scéne and shot composition in Some Like it Hot
The five main shot sizes
Psycho: the unbalanced Norman Bates
Citizen Kane and deep focus: Kane's parents decide his future as he plays in the background
The 180 degree rule
The 30 degree rule
An everyday traffic jam in Godard's Weekend
Metropolis: futuristic technology
Plato's cave
Dirty Harry Callaghan: whose identification figure?
Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: who is she performing for?
Scream: Casey answers the phone
Are we all voyeurs? Rear Window
Stagecoach: Western location, props and costume
Kate Winslet: in some ways a star, in others not?
Criteria for defining national cinema
UK cinema sites, screens and seats 2000–8
Cinema screens in the UK, 1950–2007
Story and plot information
UK cinema admissions 1933–2009
Frequency of cinemagoing 2001–6
Roland Barthes' narrative codes