Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Creative Evolution 32
6. 2. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility 44
7. 3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception 80
8. 4. The Film and the New Psychology 97
9. 5. On Contemporary Alienation or the End of the Pact with the Devil 113
10. 6. The Looking Glass, from the Other Side 123
11. 7. Acinema 137
12. 8. Cinema I: The Movement- Image 152
13. 9. Cinema II: The Time- Image 177
14. 10. The Malady of Grief: Duras 200
15. 11. Notes on Gesture 208
16. 12. “In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large” 218
17. 13. And Life Goes On: Life and Nothing More 241
18. 14. Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman 255
19. 15. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages 271
20. 16. Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation 291
21. 17. Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise 308
22. 18. The Miracle of Analogy: or, The History of Photography, Part 1 328
23. Selected Bibliography 341
24. Index 349