Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Dedication and Acknowledgments IX
4. Starting Out in Film Criticism 1
5. One The Critical Apparatus
6. Introduction 11
7. Theory and Practice 18
8. Film Comment Journals, 1974-1977: 25
9. Edinburgh Encounters: 30
10. Barthes & Film: 45
11. A Bluffer's Guide to Bèla Tarr 54
12. They Drive by Night: 59
13. Two Touchstones
14. Introduction 77
15. Ozu's GOOD MORNING 84
16. Aspects Or ANATAHAN 87
17. Gold Diggers of 1953: 94
18. Gertrud as Nonnarrative 105
19. The Manchurian Candidate 117
20. OTHELLO Goes Hollywood 124
21. Three Filmmakers
22. Introduction 135
23. Work and Play in the House of Fiction 142
24. The Tyranny of Sensitivity 153
25. Love Films 156
26. The Death of Hulot 163
27. Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: 171
28. The Importance of Being Perverse: 184
29. Alain Resnais and MÈLO 190
30. Four Provocations
31. Introduction 203
32. Jerri Lewis's HARDLY WORKING 210
33. DOOMED LOVE: 213
34. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 218
35. Mapping the Territory of Radl Ruiz 222
36. Notes Toward the Devaluation of Woody Allen 238
37. Crass Consciousness: 248
38. Five Inside and Outside the Movie Theater
39. Introduction 257
40. Bird Watching 264
41. Jean Vigo's Secret 272
42. Guilty by Omission 281
43. His Master's Vice 295
44. Government Lies 301
45. A Cinema of Uncertainty: 307
46. Bibliography 315
47. Index 323