Theory Talk

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. 1. Making Films Mean
5. Interpretation as Construction xvii
6. Meaning Made 8
7. Interpretive Doctrines 13
8. 2. Routines and Practices
9. Introduction 19
10. Interpretation Inc. 20
11. The Logic of Discovery or Problem-Solving 29
12. The Logic of Justification or Rhetoric 34
13. An Anatomy of Interpretation 40
14. 3. Interpretation as Explication
15. The French Connection 43
16. Explication Academicized 48
17. Picture Planes 53
18. Meaning and Unity 64
19. 4. Symptomatic Interpretation
20. Introduction 71
21. Culture Dream and Lauren Bacall 73
22. Myth as Antinomy 78
23. Systeme a la Mode 83
24. The Contradictory Text 87
25. Symptoms and Explications 94
26. 5. Semantic Fields
27. Introduction 105
28. Meanings in Structures 107
29. Structures of Meaning 115
30. The Role of Semantic Fields 127
31. 6. Schemata and Heuristics
32. Mapping as Making 129
33. Knowledge Structures and Routines 135
34. Mapping as Modeling 142
35. 7. Two Basic Schemata
36. Is There a Class for This Text? 146
37. Making Films Personal 151
38. 8. Text Schemata
39. Introduction 169
40. A Bull's-Eye Schema 170
41. Meaning Inside Out and Outside In 181
42. Textual Trajectories 186
43. Doctrines into Diachronies 195
44. 9. Interpretation as Rhetoric
45. Introduction 205
46. Sample Strategies 206
47. Theory Talk 215
48. 10. Rhetoric in Action: Seven Models of Psycho
49. Jean Douchet, "Hitch and His Public" (1960) 224
50. Robin Wood, "Psycho," Hitchcock's Films (1965) 226
51. Raymond Durgnat, "Inside Norman Bates," Films and Feelings (1967) 230
52. V. F. Perkins, "The World and Its Image," Film as Film (1972) 232
53. Raymond Bellour, "Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion" (1979) 235
54. Barbara Klinger, "Psycho: The Institutionalization of Female Sexuality" (1982) 239
55. Leland Poague, "Links in a Chain: Psycho and Film Classicism" (1986) 241
56. 11. Why Not to Read a Film
57. The Ends of Interpretation 249
58. The End of Interpretation? 254
59. Prospects for a Poetics 263
60. Notes 277
61. Index 329