Includes bibliographical references and index.

New Hollywood, new aesthetics. New Hollywood, new millennium / Thomas Schatz -- The supernatural in neo-baroque Hollywood / Sean Cubitt -- Man without a movie camera, movies without men: towards a posthumanist cinema? / William Brown -- Movie-games and game-movies: towards an aesthetics of transmediality / Douglas Brown and Tanya Krzywinska -- Saw heard: musical sound design in contemporary cinema / K.J. Donnelly -- The shape of 1999: the stylistics of American movies at the end of the century / Barry Salt -- Tales of epiphany and entropy: paranarrative worlds on YouTube / Thomas Elsaesser -- Feminism, philosophy, and queer theory. Reformulating the symbolic universe: Kill Bill and Tarantino's transcultural imaginary / Sa�sa Vojkovi�c -- (Broke)back to the mainstream: queer theory and queer cinemas today / Harry M. Benshoff -- Demystifying Deleuze: French philosophy meets contemporary U.S. cinema / David Martin-Jones -- Rethinking affects, narration, fantasy, and realism. Trauma, pleasure, and emotion in the viewing of Titanic: a cognitive approach / Carl Plantinga -- Mementos of contemporary American cinema: identifying and responding to the unreliable narrator in the movie theater / Volker Ferenz -- Fantasy audiences versus fantasy audiences / Martin Barker -- "What is there really in the world?" Forms of theory, evidence and truth in Fahrenheit 9/11: a philosophical and intuitionist realist approach / Ian Aitken.