An anthology of articles that range over an eclectic collection of topics in the areas of film and television. Considered are a variety of aspects of cinema in different places and at different times: Australian cinema and culture; American Cold War musicals; Hollywood father-and-son films in the 1980s; British Second World War films and class; the earliest American films and their use of location. In addition, there are essays on television: Situation Comedy narrative; and Soap Opera spectacle.