Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures and Sources ix
4. Preface xi
5. PART ONE: THEORETICAL CONCERNS
6. Chapter One The Use-Value of Reception Studies 3
7. Chapter Two Reception Studies in Other Disciplines 16
8. Chapter Three Reception Studies in Film and Television 49
9. Chapter Four Toward a Historical Materialist Approach to Reception Studies 79
10. PART TWO: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE RECEPTION OF AMERICAN FILMS
11. Chapter Five Rethinking "Primitive" Cinema: Intertextuality, the Middle-Class Audience, and Reception Studies 101
12. Chapter Six 'The Handmaiden of Villainy": Foolish Wives, Politics, Gender Orientation, and the Other 124
13. Chapter Seven The Birth of a Nation: Reconsidering Its Reception 139
14. Chapter Eight The Logic of Alternative Readings: A Star Is Born 154
15. Chapter Nine With the Compliments of the Auteur: Art Cinema and the Complexities of Its Reading Strategies 178
16. Chapter Ten Chameleon in the Film, Chameleons in the Audience; or, Where Is Parody? The Case ofZelig 196
17. Epilogue 210
18. Notes 213
19. Select Bibliography 259
20. Index 271