Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Baring the Device 1
5. CHAPTER 1 The Moving Picture Gallery 14
6. CHAPTER 2 A Form of Necrophilia (The Moving Picture Gallery Revisited) 25
7. CHAPTER 3 The Birth, Death, and Apotheosis of a Hollywood Love Goddess 56
8. CHAPTER 4 Survivors of the Shipwreck of Modernity 74
9. CHAPTER 5 Out of Her Element 100
10. CHAPTER 6 Playing with Fire 123
11. CHAPTER 7 Dirty Pictures, Mud Lust, and Abject Desire: Myths of Origin and the Cinematic Object 140
12. Notes 159
13. Bibliography 179
14. Index 189