Introduction: Picking up the trail -- Art and the perceptual process -- The analysis of representational images -- The cinema: movement, narrative, and paradox -- Blonde Venus: playing with performance -- For The birds -- The documentary film and principles of exposition -- Frederick Wiseman's documentaries: theory and structure -- Documentary, criticism, and the ethnographic film -- Conclusion: Pitching camp on a journey not yet ended -- Appendix A. Flicker and motion in film / by Susan J. Lederman and Bill Nichols -- Appendix B. Christian Metz's Grande syntagmatique