Introduction: Hooray for a Mickey Mouse subject! / James Donald -- section I: Mapping traditions. North America / Dana Polan -- European film scholarship / Ian Aitken -- China : cinema, politics, and scholarship / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Paola Voci -- Our films, their films : some speculations on writing Indian film history / Brian Shoesmith -- Film research in Argentina / David Oubiña -- Cinema studies in Brazil / Ismail Xavier -- Y tu crítica también : the development of Mexican film studies at home and abroad / Carlos A. Gutiérrez -- Australia / Noel King, Constantine Verevis, and Deane Williams -- Postcolonial and transnational perspectives / Bhaskar Sarkar -- section II: Disciplinary dialogues. Film and philosophy / Murray Smith -- Difficult relations : film studies and continental European philosophy / Hamish Ford -- Cinema and art history : film has two eyes / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Film and history / Vanessa R. Schwartz -- Mass media, anthropology, and ethnography / Faye Ginsburg -- Psychoanalysis and cinema / Patrick Fuery -- The political economy of film / Tom O'Regan -- TV's next season? / Lynn Spigel -- Film and cultural studies / Graeme Turner -- section III: Paradigms in perspective. The Hollywood industry paradigm / Ruth Vasey -- Formalist tendencies in film studies / Warren Buckland -- The persistence of the avant-garde / Michael O'Pray -- Film and (as) modernity / Julian Murphet -- Cinema/ideology/society : the political expectations of film theory / Jane Gaines -- "We do not die twice" : realism and cinema / George Kouvaros -- Feminist perspectives in film studies / Alison Butler -- Authors and auteurs : the uses of theory / John Caughie -- Where sound is : locating the absent aural in film theory / Philip Brophy -- The question of genre in cult film and fandom : between contract and discourse / Matt Hills -- Film audiences / Jostein Gripsrud and Erlend Lavik -- Re-mapping Bollywood cinema : a postcolonial case-study / Vijay Mishra -- Film in the context of digital media / Scott McQuire