Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter One. Theory of the Gimmick 52
5. Chapter Two. Transparency and Magic in the Gimmick as Technique 83
6. Chapter Three. Readymade Ideas 105
7. Chapter Four. It Follows, or Financial Imps 145
8. Chapter Five. Visceral Abstractions 174
9. Chapter Six. Rødland’s Gimmick 196
10. Chapter Seven. The Color of Value: Stan Douglas’s Suspiria 224
11. Chapter Eight. Henry James’s “Same Secret Principle” 266
12. Notes 307
13. Acknowledgments 381
14. Index 387