Patrick ffrench is Professor of French at King's College London, where he teaches modern French literature and thought.

Introduction
1. Film as Myth and Form
2. Filmology and Semiology
3. The Third Meaning
4. Beyond 'The Third Meaning'
5. Leaving the Cinema
6. Photography, not Cinema?
7. Dear Antonioni
Loving Vigilance
Conclusion
Barthes' Cinema
Bibliography
Index