'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.

Introduction; Part I. Children and the Cinema; Children of a Lesser God; Death Wish, Child’s Whim, Auteurist Will; War Games; Part II. Literature and Adaptation; 'Outing' Edward, Outfitting Marlowe; Theater and Fiction into Film; Part III. Views and Interviews; Married to the Job; Reflecting Reality—and Mystery; Lower Depths, Higher Planes; The Cinema of Resistance; Part IV: World Enough and Time; The World Is Too Much with Us; Characterizing Space, Configuring Time; As Time Goes By; Bibliography; Index

Bert Cardullo is Professor and Chair of Media and Communication at the Izmir University of Economics in Turkey.