Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1 WITHIN THE CINEMA: THE FILMIC FACT -- 2 WITHIN THE FILMIC FACT: THE CINEMA -- 3 ‘FILM’ IN AN ABSOLUTE SENSE -- 4 PLURALITY OF CINEMATIC CODES -- 5 FROM CODE TO SYSTEM; MESSAGE TO TEXT -- 6 TEXTUAL SYSTEMS -- 7 TEXTUALITY AND ‘SINGULARITY’ -- 8 PARADIGMATIC AND SYNTAGMATIC -- 9 THE PROBLEM OF DISTINCTIVE UNTTS -- 10 ‘SPECIFIC/NON-SPECIFIC’: RELATIVITY OF THE CLASSIFICATION RETAINED -- 11 CINEMA AND WRITING -- CONCLUSION: CINEMATIC LANGUAGE SYSTEM AND FILMIC WRITING -- SUBJECT INDEX -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF FILMS