1. Cats Love Small Spaces: Framing in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue: Cinema Is a Cat 1
5. Part I: The Languages of Cinema
6. 1. Cats Love Small Spaces: Framing in Breakfast at Tiffany’s 9
7. 2. Cats Love Dark Places: Lighting in Cat People 29
8. 3. Cats Love Chases: Editing in To Catch a Thief 55
9. Part II: Theories and Histories of Cinema
10. 4. Cats Are Prima Donnas: Feminist Film Theory and Auteurism in Dishonored 79
11. 5. Cats, Mixed and Hybrid: Genre and Stardom in Shozo, a Cat and Two Women 95
12. 6. Drawing Pictures of Cats: National Cinema and Anime in Jungle Emperor Leo 112
13. 7. Moving Like a Cat: Realism in Take Care of My Cat 129
14. 8. Cats Old and New: Modernity in Samurai Cat 141
15. Epilogue: Cats Like Watching: History in The Cats of Mirikitani 154
16. Glossary 163
17. Filmography 167
18. References 171
19. Index 177