A book for serious students of Cinema. List of Plates, Preface, The Cinematic Apparatus: Technology as Historical and Cultural Form, Towards an Economic History of the Cinema: The Coming of Sound to Hollywood, The Post-War Struggle for Color, Flicker and Motion in Film, Machines of the Visible, The Plate of Visual Illusions, The Cinematic Apparatus: Problems in Current Theory, Through the Looking Glass, Index.