The following bibliography is separated into topics according to the subjects
covered in each chapter of the book. However, only items written since 1965
and only those specifically addressing the cinema are included. The reader is
urged to consult the notes for each chapter since these contain references to
essential texts from philosophy, literary theory, psychoanalysis, and so on that
undergird this purely film-oriented bibliography.

Books and anthologies indispensable to modern theory as a whole are listed
in the very first category even though they are relevant to many other topics.
Hence the reader ought first to consult this initial category before referring to
any of the more specialized topics.

Finally, it should be mentioned concerning the scope of this bibliography,
that an effort was made to include all important items relating to these topics
written in English, together with a few indispensable French ones. I have been
far more selective with regard to those books and essays that are primarily film
analyses since the number of close textual analyses of films is astronomical. I
chose those that seem to me to represent a particularly transparent application
of a theoretical stance or those that, in the analysis itself, question certain as-
sumptions crucial to recent theory. Most of these analyses are grouped in the
final category of the bibliography but some are so closely linked to a particular
topic that they have been lodged under the rubric of that topic.

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