Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: From the Imaginary Look to the Real Gaze 1
6. The Cinema of Fantasy
7. Fantasy and Showing Too Much 23
8. Theoretical Fantasizing 31
9. The Politics of Cinematic Fantasy 35
10. Early Explorations of Fantasy 39
11. The Coldness of Kubrick 43
12. Spike Lee’s Fantasmatic Explosions 49
13. Michael Mann and the Ethics of Excess 57
14. The Bankruptcy of Fantasy in Fellini 63
15. The Cinema of Desire
16. Desire and Not Showing Enough 69
17. Theoretical Desiring 75
18. The Politics of Cinematic Desire 79
19. The Impossible Object of the Nouvelle Vague 83
20. The Banality of Orson Welles 91
21. Claire Denis and the Other’s Failure to Enjoy 99
22. Political Desire in Italian Neorealism 107
23. The Cinema of Integration
24. Political Desire in Italian Neorealism 115
25. The Theoretical Opposition 123
26. The Politics of the Cinema of Integration 127
27. The Ordinary Cinema of Ron Howard 131
28. Steven Spielberg’s Search for the Father 137
29. D. W. Griffith’s Suspense 147
30. Films That Separate 155
31. The Cinema of Intersection
32. The Separation of Desire and Fantasy 163
33. Theorizing the Real 171
34. The Politics of the Cinema of Intersection 175
35. The Overlapping Worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky 179
36. Alain Resnais between the Present and the Past 185
37. Wim Wenders and the Ethics of Fantasizing 195
38. The Sexual Relationship with David Lynch 203
39. Notes 211
40. Index 247