Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

I. After Literature

1 Cinematic Vertigo: Hitchcock to Vertov and Back

2 Mouchette and the Paradoxes of the Language of Images

II. The Frontiers of Art

3 Ars gratia artis: Minnelli’s Poetics

4 The Philosopher’s Body: Rossellini’s Philosophical Films

III. Politics in Film

5 Fireside Conversation: Straub and Others

6 Pedro Costa’s Politics

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