Introduction to culture and cultural criticism -- Concepts of ideology -- Semiotics, structuralism, and beyond -- Authorship and the auteur theory -- Film and television genres -- Psychoanalysis (part one): basic concepts -- Psychoanalysis (part two): screen and apparatus theory -- Feminist approaches to film and television -- Film, television, and the postmodern -- Cultural studies and reception -- Audiences and fandoms -- Beyond identity politics: contemporary thinking on nation, race, gender, and sexuality