Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema

New Preface to the English Edition, Preface, Part I: The Absent Cause of Film: On the Theory of Enunciation and Suture, Introduction, 1. On Enunciation in Apparatus Theory, 1.1 Imaginary Enunciation, or the Place of the Spectator: Christian Metz (1), 1.2 Voyeuristic Enunciation, or the Place of the Author: Raymond Bellour, 1.3 The Double nonc©, or the Division of the Filmic Image: World Projection as Rear-projection in Marnie, 2. On Enunciation without an Enunciator: Suture, 2.1 Negative Enunciation, or the Place of the Absent One: Jean-Pierre Oudart, 2.2 Masked Enunciation, the Place of the Apparatus: Daniel Dayan, 2.3 The Schizoid Suture, or the Division of Body and Voice: Acousmatics as Schismatics in Psycho, 3. On the Pragmatics of Enunciation, 3.1 Deictic Enunciation, or Film as Speech Act: Francesco Casetti, 3.2 Impersonal Enunciation, or Film as Writing: Christian Metz (2), 3.3 Looking at the Camera, or the Theatricalization of Film: Jean-Luc Godard, 4. On the Acousmatics of Enunciation: Back to the Suture, 4.1 External Enunciation, or the Triumph of the Gaze over the Eye: Jacques Lacan/Kaja Silverman, 4.2 Extimate Enunciation, or the Gaze as Bodiless Organ: Joan Copjec/Slavoj Žižek, 4.3 From the Hors-champ to the Hors-lieu, or the Transsubjective Point of View: The Unrepresentable in Rossellini and Antonioni, 5. The Political Uncanny, or the Return of the Repressed: Cach©, Part II: Allegories of Totality: Fredric Jameson's Political Film Aesthetics,Introduction, 6. The Dialectics of Mass Culture 6.1 Reification and Utopia: Jaws and The Godfather, 6.2 Class and Allegory: Dog Day Afternoon, 6.3 The Political Unconscious, 7. Cartographies of the Postmodern, 7.1 Nostalgia und Historicism, 7.2 The Totalization of Totality: Cognitive Mapping, 7.3 The Implosion of the Referent: Blow-Up, 8. Geopolitical Aesthetics, 8.1 Totality as Conspiracy, 8.2 Conspirational Enunciation, or the Acousmatics of the Paranoia Film, 8.3 Digital Cinema in the Age of Globalization: Miami Vice, 9. The Political Uncanny, or the Return of Domination: The Shining, Filmography, Bibliography, Index.