Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Acknowledgements 11
5. Introduction 15
6. Part I. Non-cinema
7. 1. The Death of (a) Cinema 41
8. 2. Jafar Panahi’s Forbidden Tetralogy 63
9. 3. Film as Death 87
10. 4. The Blind Spot of History 107
11. Part II. Intermedial Passages
12. 5. The Geidōmono Genre and Intermedial Acting in Ozu and Mizoguchi 127
13. 6. Intermedial History-Telling 153
14. 7. Passages to Reality 173
15. Part III. Towards Total Cinema
16. 8. The Reality of Art 201
17. 9. Historicising the Story through Film and Music 225
18. 10. Total Cinema as Mode of Production 249
19. Bibliography 275
20. Index 289