Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Screen Author — Wanted: Dead or Alive 1
5. 1. Typecasting the Author 20
6. 2. Beyond Adaptation: The Writer as Filmmaker 37
7. 3. The Author at the Dream Factory: The Screenwriter and the Movies 60
8. 4. The Authoress: Textuality as Sexuality 88
9. 5. Writing Pain: The Infirm Author 114
10. 6. Cinécriture: Word and Image 142
11. 7. Corpus and Oeuvre: Authorship and the Body 165
12. 8. Stealing Beauty: The Reader, the Critic, and the Appropriation of the Authorial Voice 190
13. Afterword: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema 214
14. Notes 227
15. Filmography 243
16. Bibliography 247
17. Index 257
18. About the author 275