Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Lecture 1 Boy Bitten by a Lizard 7
6. Lecture 2 Immersion and Specularity 39
7. Lecture 3 The Invention of Absorption 69
8. Lecture 4 Skepticism, Shakespeare, Address, Density 100
9. Lecture 5 Severed Representations 142
10. Lecture 6 The Internal Structure of the Pictorial Act 196
11. Conclusion 228
12. Notes 246
13. Photography and Copyright Credits 294
14. Index 296