Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Part I: Letters of Introduction
4. 1. Retying the Threads 13
5. 2. The Path and the Passeur 29
6. 3. That Summer Feeling 33
7. Part II: Scenographies
8. 4. Scenes 41
9. 5. Wishful Thinking 51
10. 6. Entities and Energies 63
11. 7. Entranced 79
12. Part III: A Cinephile in Australia
13. 8. No Flowers for the Cinephile. The Fates of Cultural Populism 1960-1987 95
14. Part IV: The Lyrical Impulse
15. 9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space 139
16. 10. The Trouble with Fiction 157
17. 11. Ball of Fire 173
18. 12. The Ever-Tested Limit 193
19. 13. Delirious Enchantment 223
20. Part V: Genre Games
21. 14. Mr Big 243
22. 15. Unlawful Entries 265
23. 16. Lady, Beware 277
24. 17. Live to Tell 291
25. 18. In the Mood For (Something Like) Love 301
26. 19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort 311
27. Part VI: Interventions
28. 20. Making a Bad Script Worse 329
29. 21. The Offended Critic 339
30. 22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Vicarious, Unstable Reality 355
31. Part VII: Envoi
32. 23. No Direction Home 365
33. 24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses 371
34. 25. My Back Pages 377
35. 26. The File We Accompany 385
36. Sources of Texts 413
37. Index 417