Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword: Through Carroll's Looking Glass of Criticism
- Introduction
- 1 The Cabinet of Dr. Kracauer
- 2 Entr'acte, Paris and Dada
- 3 The Gold Rush
- 4 Keaton: Film Acting as Action
- 5 Buster Keaton, The General, and Visible Intelligibility
- 6 For God and Country
- 7 Lang, Pabst, and Sound
- 8 Notes on Dreyer's Vampyr
- 9 King Kong: Ape and Essence
- 10 Becky Sharp Takes Over
- 11 Interpreting Citizen Kane
- 12 The Moral Ecology of Melodrama: The Family Plot and Magnificent Obsession
- 13 Mind, Medium, and Metaphor in Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic
- 14 Welles and Kafka
- 15 Nothing But a Man and The Cool World
- 16 Identity and Difference: From Ritual Symbolism to Condensation in Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
- 17 Text of Light
- 18 Joan Jonas: Making the Image Visible
- 19 Introduction to Journeys from Berlin/1971
- 20 The Future of Allusion: Hollywood in the Seventies (and Beyond)
- 21 Back to Basics
- 22 Amy Taubin's Bag
- 23 Herzog, Presence, and Paradox
- 24 Film in the Age of Postmodernism
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword: Through Carroll's Looking Glass of Criticism
- Introduction
- 1 The Cabinet of Dr. Kracauer
- 2 Entr'acte, Paris and Dada
- 3 The Gold Rush
- 4 Keaton: Film Acting as Action
- 5 Buster Keaton, The General, and Visible Intelligibility
- 6 For God and Country
- 7 Lang, Pabst, and Sound
- 8 Notes on Dreyer's Vampyr
- 9 King Kong: Ape and Essence
- 10 Becky Sharp Takes Over
- 11 Interpreting Citizen Kane
- 12 The Moral Ecology of Melodrama: The Family Plot and Magnificent Obsession
- 13 Mind, Medium, and Metaphor in Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic
- 14 Welles and Kafka
- 15 Nothing But a Man and The Cool World
- 16 Identity and Difference: From Ritual Symbolism to Condensation in Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
- 17 Text of Light
- 18 Joan Jonas: Making the Image Visible
- 19 Introduction to Journeys from Berlin/1971
- 20 The Future of Allusion: Hollywood in the Seventies (and Beyond)
- 21 Back to Basics
- 22 Amy Taubin's Bag
- 23 Herzog, Presence, and Paradox
- 24 Film in the Age of Postmodernism
- Notes
- Index
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- Interpreting the Moving Image , pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998