Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Family Melodrama of Classical Narrative Cinema 1
4. Dickens. Griffith, and Film Theory Today 9
5. Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory 49
6. Film Response from Eye to I: The Kuleshov Experiment 79
7. Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real: The Return of Martin Guerre 107
8. Between Melodrama and Realism: Anthony Asquith's Underaround and King Vidor's The Crowd 129
9. The Hieroglyph and the Whore: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance 169
10. The She-Man: Postmodern Bi-Sexed Performance in Film and Video 203
11. Dead Ringer: Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike 227
12. Nostalgia for the Present 253
13. Reading Dynasty: Television and Reception Theory 275
14. Dialogues of the Living Dead 295
15. Image/Machine/Image: On the Use and Abuse of Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory 313
16. Notes on Contributors 341
17. Index 345