Prelude: Bright Experience
Bicameral man; Cape Fear; Wife vs. Secretary; Vertigo
Part I: Lost Voyagers
1. Sidestepping
The Crown; Forms of Talk; Singin' in the Rain; Bringing Up Baby; The Band Wagon
2. Unforgettable
A Star is Born; Negotiating Hollywood; The Hunchback of Notre Dame
3. Banquet
Labor; Reversal of Fortune
4. Plastic Surgery
Advertising; The Long Goodbye; Samson and Delilah
5. Registrations
Star registrations; Dark Passage; Lee Marvin; Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. Great Expectations
The Philadelphia Story; The Bourne Identity; The Manchurian Candidate (1962); The Lonedale Operator; The Portrait of a Lady; Vera Miles
7. Naming of Parts
The body; Hugo; Strangers on a Train; Silence; Psycho; Pan's Labyrinth; Fellini Satyricon; Invaders from Mars (1953); Syriana
8. A Flicker
The Quiet Man; The King of Comedy; Jaws
9. Being Alive
Chinatown; Being There; Magnolia; Cries and Whispers; The Shootist; East of Eden; The Bourne Supremacy; Dinner at Eight; War of the Worlds; The Third Man; Mildred Pierce; The Bad Seed; The Karate Kid; Carrie; The Entertainer; Marriage Story
10. For Your Eyes Only
Life; Alien; Saboteur; The Astronaut's Wife; Jaws; Imitation of Life (1954); Rear Window; His Girl Friday; Joy of Living; Godzilla; The Duchess
11. Hands
The Theory of Everything; The Band Wagon; Howards End; Empire of the Sun; Twentieth Century; Blade Runner; The Lonedale Operator; Stairway to Heaven; The Big Sleep; Birth; "Life Lessons"; Vertigo
12. A Logical Gasp
Some Like It Hot; The Thomas Crown Affair; Saturday Night Fever; A.I. Artificial Intelligence; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Big Night; The Graduate; Waterloo Bridge; The Greatest Show on Earth
13. Vigil
The Command; On the Beach; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The Wolf's Call
14. Privileged
A Most Wanted Man; Rebel Without a Cause; Stage Fright; The Incredible Shrinking Man; The Egyptian; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Dr. No; Sabrina; Forbidden Planet; Three Days of the Condor; The Talented Mr. Ripley
15. Ting-a-ling-a-ling
The acousmetre; The Errand Boy; Being John Malkovich; The Conversation; The President's Analyst; Wait Until Dark; The Thirteenth Guest
16. Unheard Voices
Bullitt; Lawrence of Arabia; F for Fake; The Hospital; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Ten Commandments (1956); Titanic; The Maltese Falcon; Casablanca; Gaslight; Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler; Rebecca; Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day; Men in Black; The Revenant
17. Remote Control
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Searchers; On the Waterfront; Doctor Zhivago; The Big Sleep; Shane; Donnie Brasco; Klute; When Harry Met Sally . . .; The Laundromat
Part II: Spectator, Watch Thyself
18. Paranoia
Binge watching; Narcos Mexico; Homeland; Giri/Haji; the optimetre; Gone Girl; Mindhunter
19. Quote Me
Vertigo; Conflict; Tempest; La mariee etait en noir; Marnie; J'ai epouse un ombre; No Man of Her Own; Nouvelle Vague; The Barefoot Contessa; F for Fake
20. The Magic Touch
Marathon Man; The Sound of Music; Rear Window; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The Incredible Shrinking Man; Star Wars (1977); Blow-Up; Marriage Story; The Kiss of the Spider Woman; Psycho; Devil in the Flesh; The Dreamers; Commando; Grease; The Fight Club
21. Exeunt omnes.
American Graffiti; Casablanca; Diva; The Graduate
22. Throw It Away
Robert De Niro; Acting as being; The Train; Red River
23. Who Are You?
Bunny Lake Is Missing
24. The Walking Cure
Paris, Texas; Gerry; North by Northwest; Marathon Man; Rebel Without a Cause; Fahrenheit 451; The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); Midnight Cowboy; Day for Night
25. The Picture Dances
The Sea Hawk; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Jaws; Catch Me If You Can
26. Taboo
Film and limits, Blow-Up, Blade Runner, 1939 General Motors Futurama, Disneyland, Until the End of the World
27. Only Connect
Films as theories, latent pattern maintenance, Dog Day Afternoon, Shane, purity and danger, The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, 55 Days at Peking
28. The Impatient
Changeling; Ugetsu monogatari
29. At the Party
Annie Hall, Top Hat, Mystic River, Saturday Night Fever, John Wick, Flying Down to Rio, His Majesty O'Keefe, Tootsie, The Big Chill, Top Hat, Goodfellas, Play It Again, Sam, Romeo + Juliet
30. Oh!
Blow-Up; Somewhere in Time
31. A Sight for Sore Eyes
Vertigo
PART III: The One-Eyed Stranger
32. It's Like This
The Irishman; performance and visibility
33. Taking Off
Radical discontinuity; Harold Edgerton; contiguity and non-contiguity; My Dinner with Andre; Lawrence of Arabia; The Phantom of Liberty; The Return of Martin Guerre; Source Code; Interstellar; Pillow Talk; The Big Store; All the President's Men
34. Topographies
The Live by Night; West Side Story; the Haussmannized city; 8 1/2
35. Forget Me Not
The field of the previous
36. Inspired
Real events and Munich; Official Secrets; The Philadelphia Story; Jaws; Peter Pan
37. Shades in the Dark
The Purple Rose of Cairo; cinema and the mass audience
38. The Jitters
Language for sound and image; 6 Underground; 21 Bridges; systematic discontinuity; fugue; action cinema and attention deficit
39. Irrational Space
The Maltese Falcon; Rope; Kiss Me Deadly; The Incredible Shrinking Man; Vertigo; Blow-Up; Zabriskie Point; Chinatown; My Dinner with Andre; sex, lies, and videotape; Birth; Personal Shopper; A Ghost Story
40. Spaced Out
Blow-Up; Consort Road; "Hitchcock and Art"; Psycho
41. Rabbit
The Red Shoes
42. M'm! M'm! Good!
"good" films; Cries and Whispers; Rabbit of Seville; L'Avventura; Vertigo; Plan 9 from Outer Space
43. Brotherly Love
The camera-friend; Crossfire
44. The Star's Twin
Honey Boy
45. Wink Wink
Walk-ons; Charlie's Angels; Superman Returns; Sunset Blvd.; The Night of the Hunter; Blade Runner; Blade Runner 2049; Battlestar Gallactica; Planet of the Apes (1968); The Planet of the Apes (2001); Mary Poppins (1964); Mary Poppins Returns (2018); War of the Worlds; The War of the Worlds; West Side Story (forthcoming); West Side Story (1961); "West Side Story" (1959)
46. Filmic
The Jungle Book (1942); Rebecca (1940); Gone with the Wind (1939); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966); The Ten Commandments (1956); Empire of the Sun (1987); Top Hat; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Singin' in the Rain; Murder on the Orient Express (2017); Citizen Kane; Clash of the Titans; Alien
47. Read This
Finding Forrester; That Certain Summer
48. Time This
My Dinner with Andre; Carnage; 2001: A Space Odyseey; Barry Lyndon; Words and Music; The Right Stuff; Halt and Catch Fire; Nick of Time; Irreversible; Memento; Betrayal; Still of the Night
Postscriptum: Must I Know What I See?
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