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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chantal Akerman's Films: The Politics ofthe Singular 1
5. 1. NOTHING HAPPENS Time for the Everyday in Postwar Realist Cinema
6. Charting the Everyday in Postwar Europe 24
7. A Realism of Surfaces: Bazin and Neorealist Film 27
8. From Surface to Structure: Barthes, Godard, and the Textualization of Reality 33
9. Beyond Cinematic Positivism: The Antirescue Cinema of Andy Warhol 36
10. 2. TOWARD A CORPOREAL CINEMA Theatricality in the '70s
11. The United States in Real Time: Minimal, Hyperreal, and Structural 48
12. Quotation Reconsidered: European "Theatrical" Cinema 54
13. 3. THE EQUIVALENCE OF EVENTS Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
14. Excess Description: Robbe-Grillet and Cinematic Hyperrealism 69
15. Bracketing Drama: The Other Scene 73
16. The Murder, and, and, and ... : An Aesthetics of Homogeneity 80
17. The Automaton: Agency and Causality in Jeanne Die/man 88
18. 4. EXPANDING THE "I" Character in Experimental Feminist Narrative
19. The Lure of Center in Rainer's Work: A Cautionary Tale 104
20. The Eroded Index: Liminality in Je tu il elle 109
21. An Alogical, Fitful, Evidence 112
22. "Here Is": Redundant Description 118
23. A Mock Centrality: An A-individual Singularity 121
24. 5. "HER" AND JEANNE DIELMAN Type as Commerce
25. For Example, "Her": Godard and the "Natural" Sign 131
26. Jeanne Dielman: An Exceptional Typicality 140
27. 6. FORMS OF ADDRESS Epistolary Performance, Monologue, and Bla BlaBla
28. Epistolary Performance: News from Home 150
29. Talk-Blocks: Meetings with Anna 154
30. Postscript: The Man with the Suitcase and A Filmmaker's Letter 161
31. What is Wrong with Signing? A Filmmaker's Letter 166
32. 7. THE RHYTHM OF CLICHE Akerman into the '90s
33. Eight Times "Oui": Singularity in Toute une nuit 173
34. Night and Day and Night: The Cycle Revisited 182
35. So Let's Sing: The Eighties and Window Shopping 185
36. Echoes from the East: Histoires D'Amerique and D'Est 192
37. To Conclude: It Is Time 204
38. Filmography 213
39. Notes 215
40. Bibliography 247
41. Index 263