Interpreting the Moving Image

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Contents: Foreword: Through Carroll's Looking Glass of Criticism / Tom Gunning = xi Introduction = 1 1. The Cabinet of Dr. Kracauer = 17 2. Entr'acte, Paris and Dada = 26 3. The Gold Rush = 34 4. Keaton: Film Acting as Action = 44 5. Buster Keaton, The General, and Visible Intelligibility = 64 6. For God and Country = 80 7. Lang, Pabst, and Sound = 92 8. Notes on Dreyer's Vampyr = 105 9. King Kong: Ape and Essence = 118 10. Becky Sharp Takes Over = 143 11. Interpreting Citizen Kane = 153 12. The Moral Ecology of Melodrama: The Family Plot and Magnificent Obsession = 166 13. Mind, Medium, and Metaphor in Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic = 178 14. Welles and Kafka = 191 15. Nothing But a Man and The Cool World = 203 16. Identity and Difference: From Ritual Symbolism to Condensation in Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome = 214 17. Text of Light = 225 18. Joan Jonas: Making the Image Visible = 228 19. Introduction to Journeys from Berlin/1971 = 234 20. The Future of Allusion: Hollywood in the Seventies (and Beyond) = 240 21. Back to Basics = 265 22. Amy Taubin's Bag = 274 23. Herzog, Presence, and Paradox = 284 24. Film in the Age of Postmodernism = 300 Notes = 333 Index = 359

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