Includes bibliographical references and index.

The business -- World rejects Hollywood blockbusters!? -- Live with it! there'll always be sequels. Good thing, too -- Superheroes for sale -- What won the weekend? or, how to understand box-office figures -- Snakes, no; Borat, yes: not all internet publicity is the same -- Don't knock the blockbusters -- Writing about movies -- In critical condition -- Love isn't all you need -- Do filmmakers deserve the last word? -- Crix nix variety's tics -- Film as art -- But what kind of art? -- This is your brain on movies, maybe -- Movies still matter -- Storytelling and style -- Anatomy of the action picture -- Times go by turns -- Grandmaster flashback -- Originality and origin stories -- Good actors spell good acting -- By Annie standards -- Unsteadicam chronicles -- Pausing and chortling: a tribute to Bob Clampett -- Films -- A behemoth from the dead zone -- Cronenberg's violent reversals -- The movie looks back at us -- Lessons from Babel -- Slumdogged by the past -- Rat rapture -- A welcome basterdization -- Into the future -- New media and old storytelling -- The celestial multiplex -- Take my film, please.

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