Explorations in Film Theory is a selection of some of the mostinfluential articles which originally appeared in Cin -Tracts -- one of thejournals which helped define contemporary film theory. The articles representcrucial ideas and theories in the areas of film and communications studies, feministstudies, and film history. They challenge the way theoreticians and filmmakers havenot come to grips with sexual difference, and they raise questions about image andhow images produce meaning. Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Dziga-Vertov, pornography, educational television, and the New German Cinema of the 1970s are someof the topics covered.