THE FILMS OF CARL~ THEODOR DREYER

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Contents: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = ⅸ A NOTE ON VERSIONS OF DREYER'S FILMS = xi DREYER'S INTEREST = 1 The Challenge of Dreyer's Work = 1 Some Critical Concepts = 4 AN AUTHOR AND HIS LEGEND = 9 Craftsman and Artist (1919-1927) = 10 On the Margins of Film Production (1928-1968) = 18 An Aesthetic of Expressivity = 20 EARLY FILMS: NARRATIVE FORM = 25 Classical Hollywood Narrative = 25 The Impersonal Cause = 26 The Book = 34 EARLY FILMS: THE CONSTRUCTION OF SPACE = 37 Narrative and Space in the Classical Cinema = 37 The Tableau and the Face = 41 Michael = 54 PROBLEMATIC UNITIES = 60 LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC = 66 An Eccentric Space = 67 Subjectivity = 81 A Dialogue of Texts = 84 VAMPYR = 93 The Absent Cause = 93 Contradictory Spaces = 97 Narrative Recoil = 109 DAY OF WRATH = 117 Forces for Unity = 117 The Absent Cause = 124 The Scroll = 129 Problems of Rhythm = 140 ORDET = 144 The Miracle = 144 Theatricalization = 148 Sparseness = 164 GERTRUD = 171 A Memory Film = 171 An Anthology Film = 176 An Empty Film = 186 DREYER'S USES = 191 An Aesthetic in History = 191 A Possible Cinema = 193 BIOGRAPHICAL FILMOGRAPHY = 202 NOTES = 228 BIBLIOGRAPHY = 242 INDEX = 249

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