Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Of Films, Critics, and Chronicity ix
4. First Principles 1
5. Focus On Iranian Cinema
6. Writing About Iranian Cinema 21
7. A Girl and Two Women 27
8. Blood and Cherries, Snow and Dust 39
9. Mirror Images, or Children of Paradise 62
10. Angels beyond America 72
11. The Children Are Watching Us 83
12. Women and Children First 97
13. Europe, The Americas, And Beyond
14. Carry Me Home 113
15. The Happiness of Your Friends and Neighbors 139
16. Getting Straight 151
17. Stones and Roses 164
18. Hot and Cold, or Seasons Change 175
19. All about My, Your, Their Mother 187
20. Of Virgin Suicide, Human Bondage, and Male Indulgence 202
21. The Space of Time, the Sound of Silence 215
22. Aberdeen on the Adriatic 232
23. Form, Genre, Oeuvre, And Other Arts
24. Wooden Allen, or Artificial Exteriors 251
25. Latter-Day Bergman 260
26. Notes on Film Genre 268
27. Notes on Film Form 284
28. Theatre and Fiction into Film: Notes on Two Paradigmatic Scenes, One Metaphoric Fiction, and An Omnibus Adaptation 292
29. The Preemptive Image 315
30. Further Reading 323
31. Selected Directorial Filmographies 331
32. Index 337