Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. A Note on the Films XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Writing the Space of the Forties 21
7. 2. Wartime Unity: The Representation of Institutions and the Institutions of Representation 45
8. 3. Narrative limits: The Fiction of War and the War of Fictions 101
9. 4. Knowledge and Human Interests: Science, Cinema, and the Secularization of Horror 159
10. 5. Blind Insights and Dark Passages: The Problem of Placement 193
11. 6. Beyond Narrative: The Space and Spectacle of the Forties 251
12. Notes 309
13. Name and Subject Index 327
14. Film Index 333