Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1 Tarkovsky’s Solaris and the Cinematic Abyss 1
6. 2 Steven Soderbergh’s TintedWorld 21
7. 3 Aronofsky, Sundance, and the Return to Nature 45
8. 4 Mulholland Drive, Cahiers du cinéma, and the Horror of Cinephilia 77
9. 5 Spielberg’s A.I.: Animation, Time, and Digital Culture 105
10. 6 Cinema against Art: Artists and Paintings in Contemporary American Film 141
11. 7 A Plague of Frogs: Expressionism and Naturalism in 1990s American Film 173
12. 8 Situating American Film in Godard, Jarmusch, and Scorsese 209
13. Notes 233
14. Bibliography 253
15. Index 261