INDEX

Abrams, M. H. 171

abstract expressionism 275

abstraction 231, 236

absurd, theater of the 115

Adamic myth 194-195

Adorno, Theodor W. 12, 15, 17, 18, 106, 112-113, 116, 201, 276, 326n; and end of art 258; Aesthetic Theory 249, 279; Negative Dialectics 133; The Philosophy of Modern Music 18

aesthetic expression 146

affect 82, 83

Afghanistan 132

Africa 29

After the Thin Man (Van Dyke) 242-243

Akerman, Chantal 233, 235

Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein) 292

Alien (Scott) 79

alienation 93

allegory 81, 85 100 168-169

Althusser, Louis 21, 64, 93, 214, 227, 228, 276

Altman, Robert 112, 116

American Graffiti (Lucas) 116

Americanization 48, 80

analogon 72, 73

Anderson, Perry 218-219

Andrade, Mário de, Macunaíma 177

Andrew, Dudley 219

anti-hero 243

anti-Semitism 109

Antonioni, Michelangelo 8, 266-271, 273, 303

anxiety 82

Arac, Jonathan 311

Arevolo, Juan José, “Fable of the Shark and the Sardines” 317n

Aristotle 7, 13, 53, 204, 283

Aronowitz, Stanley, False Promises 62, 64

Arriflex 301

art deco 252, 253, 254, 263, 309-310, 314

art film 275

art-novella 225

Ashbery, John 115

Astaire, Fred 95

Asturias, Miguel Angel 176, 177, 191

Atget, Eugène 265-266, 288

Auerbach, Erich, Mimesis 16, 255

aura 162

auteur 19, 182, 266, 281; theory 114, 120, 243, 251, 273-275

authenticity 220, 261, 300

authoritarian personality 201

auto-referentiality 82, 94, 115, 128, 166, 172, 249, 258, 281

auto-reflexivity 169

autonomization 282, 290, 293, 295

autonomy, aesthetic 276, 285, 293; meanings of 276-283; and semiautonomy 286, 292

Bachelard, Gaston 324n

Bacon, Francis 7

The Bad Seed (Leroy) 121

Bad Timing (Roeg) 115

Bakhtin, Mikhail 290

Balzac, Honoré de 19, 60, 78, 219, 228, 243

Banham, Reyner 83

Barnet, Richard J., and Muller, Ronald E., Global Reach 71

Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) 124-125, 126-127, 133

Barthes, Roland 3, 78, 105-106, 110, 183, 222, 262, 283; Camera Lucida 271; Mythologies 28, 117

base and superstructure 226, 310

Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 283

Baudelaire, Charles 2, 195, 214, 290

Baudrillard, Jean 22

Bayreuth 105, 106, 280

Bazin, André 82, 179, 254-257, 264-267, 271, 283

beat poets 127

The Beatles 215

Beckett, Samuel 18, 275

Beethoven, Ludwig van 13, 151

Beineix, Jean-Jacques 75-85

Bel Geddes, Barbara 296

Bell, Daniel 76

Bellour, Raymond 319n

Bellow, Saul 57, 58

Benchley, Peter, Jaws 34

Benjamin, Walter 7, 31, 100, 234-235, 265, 288, 298, 318n

Bergman, Ingmar 114, 142, 157, 219, 273, 283

Bergman, Ingrid 287

Bernstein, Basil 230, 231

Bertolucci, Bernardo 187, 303, 307-308

Bildungsroman 6

The Birds (Hitchcock) 120, 150, 152, 295, 296

Bismarck, Otto von 110

Black English 230

Black literature, American 215

black-and-white film, end of 257, 266-267

Bloch, Ernst 88, 94, 96, 99, 100

Blow Out (De Palma) 82, 84, 85, 267

Blow-Up (Antonioni) 266-271, 303

body, the 203-205

Bogart, Humphrey 41, 59

Bogotazo 321-322n

Bolshevik Revolution 253

Bonnie and Clyde (Penn) 67

Bonnot, Jules (bande à Bonnot) 178

Book of the World 280 Boorman, John 246, 249

Borges, Jorge Luis 176, 258, 286

Bourdieu, Pierre 250-251, 328n, 333n

bourgeois culture 213, 215, 226, 232

Bowie, David 77, 93

Brakhage, Stan 216

Brandes, Georg 5

Brando, Marlon 67, 128

Brazil 261

Brecht, Bertolt 16, 18, 31, 42, 86, 87, 111;

Mann ist Mann 32, 202

Brownlow, Kevin 108

Buffalo Bill and the Indians (Altman) 115

Buñuel, Luis 142, 283, 284, 316n

Börger, Peter 276 business, American 38, 42, 45, 114

Cabra marcado para morrer 260-262

Cagney, James 41

Cahiers du cinéma 273

Callea, Joseph 242

camera 234-237, 299;

Benjamin on 234-235;

and realism 55

Campbell, Joseph 94

Camus, Albert, The Plague 185

Capablanca 301

capitalism 96, 98;

American 30, 70-71; late 20, 43, 84, 107, 108, 119, 173, 253, 278-279; Marx on 13; stages of 213, 214-215, 225-226; transition from feudalism to 311-312

Capote, Truman 128

Les Carabiniers (Godard) 14-15

Caro, Robert 254

Carpentier, Alejo 176-177, 190

Carter, Jimmy 29

La Casa de Agua (Penzo) 178, 181, 184-186, 199, 209

Castro, Fidel 29, 317n, 337n

Catholic Church 103, 255

Cavell, Stanley 137, 196, 202, 321n

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand 109

Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quijote 5, 19, 229

Chabrol, Claude 141, 157

Chandler, Raymond 143, 150, 290

chansons de geste 41

Chaplin, Charles 19, 290

chapter as formal unit 285, 293

Chesterton, G. K. 258

China 132

Chinatown (Polanski) 115, 123

Christ figure 93

Christianity 255

cinéma-vérité 55, 73, 89

Citizen Kane (Welles) 275

civil rights movement 49

Clarke, Arthur C. 133

class consciousness 39, 230, 232, 233; and class struggle 31-32; and figurability 51; and Marxism 47-50, 63-65, 70; and nostalgia 132-133

classical film 219

A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) 118

closure 240

codes, dialectical 231; restricted and elaborated 230-233, 237-239

cognitive mapping 74

Cold War 42, 61, 131, 132

Coleridge, S. T. 183, 286

collectivization 238

Colombia 190

color 4, 183, 193-194; in film 196-197, 198-199, 263-264, 300, 302; as historical reference 178; and magic realism 195-196; stock 338n; systems 264, 298; tinting 336n; vs. glossiness 191-192

commodification 15-18, 20, 243

commodity, as concept 14; culture 243; fetishism 259; reification 278; reproduction as 302; system 59

Common Market 108

Communism 29, 35

Condores no se entierran todos los dias (Norden) 178, 186-189, 200-207, 209

Il Conformista (Bertolucci) 116, 187, 201, 303, 307, 322n

connotation 117

Conrad, Joseph 98, 137, 290; Lord Jim 96; Nostromo 201; The Secret Agent 178

conspiracy film 300, 302, 303

consumer society 61, 80, 84

containment, strategy of 151

contradiction 81

The Conversation (Coppola) 267

Coppola, Francis Ford 34, 88, 108, 267

Cotten, Joseph 156

couple as hero 159

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir) 77

Crime Story 299

critical theory 133

Cronenberg, David 302

Cuba 198, 233, 299, 301, 317n, 337n

Cul-de-sac (Polanski) 115

cultural revolution 225-226, 240

culture, end of 221

“culture industry” 11-12, 15

culture, mass 18-22, 25-28, 34, 93, 97-98, 113

Dahrendorf, Ralf 65

daily life 57, 227; and American city 144-149; and camera 234; and realism 233; time in 204

Dark Passage (Daves) 153

Daves, Delmar 153

De Gaulle, Charles 107

De Palma, Brian 75, 76, 82, 267

De Sanctis, Francesco 5

de-narrativization 203, 209

de-naturalization 231

de-theatricalization 202-203

Dean, James 128

death of the subject 160, 164

Debord, Guy 29, 162, 173; The Society of the Spectacle 15

decentered subject 161

Deleuze, Gilles 7, 105, 136, 195, 238, 255, 286, 331n; Cinéma 330n

democratization 253

demystification 245-246

Depression 240, 243, 309

Descartes, René 173

detective story 16

dialectical criticism 174

Dickens, Charles 19

Dietrich, Marlene 297

Disney, Walt 253

distinction 251

Diva (Beineix) 75-85

Doctorow, E. L., Ragtime 57, 116, 305

documentary 222, 257, 258, 265

Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet) 52-56, 58-74

Dog Star Man (Brakhage) 216

dominant and determinants 214

Donat, Robert 159-160, 163

Don’t Look Now (Roeg) 115

Dos Passos, John 236

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 25

Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) 115

Dreiser, Theodore 59, 117-118, 274

drugs, experience of 206

dual inscription 166

The Duellists (Scott) 305

Duras, Marguerite 233, 303; Le Marin de Gibraltar 294-295, 296

Durgnat, Raymond 319-320n

Dylan, Bob 93

Eclipse (Antonioni) 267, 269, 270

Edison, Thomas 94

Eisenstein, Elizabeth 337n

Eisenstein, Sergei 114, 217, 252, 283, 291-292, 293

El Salvador 200

Eliot, T. S. 292, 294; The Waste Land 287

elitism 11

Ellison, Ralph 215

Elsaesser, Thomas 326n

encoding 141

Enlightenment 50, 80, 87, 88

episodization 285, 286, 290, 292, 295

Erikson, Erik 110

espionage thriller 67

Esprit movement 255

Estes, Richard 83

ethnic groups, and Utopian fantasy 43-44

ethnic/post-ethnic film 232-233, 309

Event 256, 266, 312-313

existentialism 7, 56-57, 82, 185, 243, 263-265

The Exorcist (Friedkin) 119, 132

experimental film 220, 228

expressionism 86

extrinsic and intrinsic criticism 245, 248-249

false consciousness 39, 224-225, 227

familiarity 180

Family 72

Family Plot (Hitchcock) 150

fancy and imagination 183, 286

fantastic literature 176-177

fascism 253, 307-308; and art 251, 253

Faulk, John Henry 54

Faulkner, William 58, 104, 274; Sanctuary 180

The Fearless Vampire Killers (Polanski) 115

Fellini, Federico 219, 273

Fernandez, Pablo Armando, Los Niños se despiden 194, 195

Fernandez, Wilhelmenia 81

fetishism 296; of hearing 17

Fever (Holland) 177-178, 183, 187, 195, 199, 207-209

figuration, figurability 51, 65, 68, 69, 103-105, 189

film noir 114, 241, 242

film stock 247-248, 261, 301; see also color

filmic knowledge 164

F.I.S.T. (Jewison) 40

flash-forward 181, 183-184

Flaubert, Gustave 64, 284, 285, 291; L’Éducation Sentimentale 285;

Madame Bovary 286; Salammbô126

Flores, Angel 176

Fontane, Theodor 125, 322n

Ford, John 8, 19, 274

Forman, Milosš 57

Foucault, Michel 173; History of Sexuality 83

frame-by-frame analysis 137

France 274-275

France/Tour/Détour/Deux Enfants 90

Frank, Joseph 203

Frankfurt School 12, 16, 17-18, 21, 27-28, 39, 133, 243, 252

Franklin, Benjamin 124

freeze-frames 264

French Revolution 79, 108

Frenzy (Hitchcock) 150, 287

Freud, Sigmund 5, 26, 32-33, 77, 88, 133, 173; and critique of origins 313; on dreams 137; and hypnosis 206; and instinctual drive 193; and language 196; and psychic subject 206; and the “uncanny” 177, 197-198; and unconscious 220; and wishfulfillment 292-293; “Mourning and Melancholia” 317n

Friedrich, Caspar David 331n

Frith, Simon 334n

Frost, Robert 19

Frye, Northrop 35, 94

futurism 83, 84

Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer 322n

Galileo Galilei 173

gangster films 41, 187, 200, 202, 241, 242, 309

Garcia Espinosa, Julio 300

García Márquez, Gabriel 176, 177, 191

Gaullism 80

Gaultier, Jules de, Le Bovarysme 5-6

gaze 192, 196

Genet, Jean 117

genre 23-25, 138-139; end of 249-250, 260; films 114, 251, 274; and pastiche 112-113; and representation 241; systems 241-242, 244

Germany 86-87, 108

Gesamtkunstwerk 87, 94, 244

ghost story 122-124, 129

Gide, Andr? Paludes 282

Girard, René Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque 6

Glass, Philip 18

Godard, Jean-Luc 8, 14, 75, 88, 89-91, 102, 107, 138, 257, 259, 300, 301, 336n; Scénario du film “Passion” 318n

The Godfather (I and II) (Coppola) 12, 13, 34, 40-46, 304, 307, 308

Goebbels, Joseph 95

Gombrich, Ernst 195

Gone with the Wind (Fleming) 95

Gorris, Marleen 233

Goulart, João 261

Gouldner, Alvin W. 230

grade-B films 114, 300, 301, 302

Gramsci, Antonio 246

Grant, Cary 154-155, 164

Grant, Ulysses B. 101

The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) 271-272

The Great Dictator (Chaplin) 95

Greene, Graham 142

Grierson, John 55

Griffith, D. W. 138, 169, 217, 269, 279

Guattari, Félix 136, 238, 331n

Guevara, Ernesto “Che” “Message to the Tricontinental” 301

Habermas, Jürgen 277, 318n

Haggard, H. Rider 98

Hansen, Duane 78

happy end 158, 240, 243

Hawks, Howard 202

Haymarket incident 178

Heath, Stephen 34

Heaven’s Gate (Cimino) 308

Hegel, G. W. F. 21, 50, 94, 103, 104, 163, 170, 221, 246, 279, 327n; and end of art 258; on language 334n; master narrative of 250; Phenomenology 26

Heidegger, Martin 14, 57, 199, 206, 255, 256, 266, 267, 269

Heine, Heinrich 87

Heller, Joseph, Catch-22 57

Hemingway, Ernest 127

Hemmings, David 267, 270

Herrmann, Bernard 287

Herzog, Werner 186

heterogeneity 247-248

Hierneis, Theodor 90

Himmler, Heinrich 110

Hine, Lewis 252, 263

historical film 178-179

historicism 206, 303; new 309

historicity 262

historiography 246, 249, 304-305, 311-314

history 310; with holes 179-180, 205-206

Hitchcock, Alfred 8, 19, 75, 114, 118-119, 138-143, 149-168, 219, 273, 275, 281, 283, 284, 286-290; and place 149-150; readings of 104, 141-143, 281; romances 295-298; thrillers 294

Hitler, A Film from Germany (Our Hitler) (Syberberg) 89-92, 94, 100, 107-111

Hitler, Adolf 87, 91, 94-95, 97, 99, 101-102, 107-110, 110, 202, 253

Hjemslev, Louis 189

Hoffa, Jimmy 40

Hoffmann, E. T. A, “The Sandman” 197

Holland, Agnuszka 177

Holland, Norman, The Dynamics of Literary Response 33

Hollywood 253; end of 249-250; realism 220, 239-244; and sound film 251; style 239; and technology 252

Homer, The Odyssey 16 286

homosexuality 60, 69

Horkheimer, Max 12, 15

horror films 119, 289

housing development, US 61

Hugo, Victor 19

Huston, John 201

hybris 158, 161, 162

I Confess (Hitchcock) 150, 157

iconoclasm 103

idealism 174, 247, 249

identification 152-154, 161, 163, 228

identity 327n

ideology 101, 185, 206, 209, 227

image, cult of 116-117

imperfect cinema 257, 300-301, 302

impressionism 137

improvisation effect 89

independent film 228

“instrumentalization” 12

intellectual cinema 252

interpretation 136, 142, 173

intertextuality 27, 34, 115

intra- and extra-aesthetic relationships 72-73

IRA 178

irony 7, 152-153, 158, 161, 162, 220, 276, 290, 326n; romantic 158

James, Henry 12, 101, 152-153, 158, 205; The Wings of the Dove 13

Jarmusch, Jim 232

Jarvis, Howard 29

Jaws (Spielberg) 12, 34-39

Jeanne Dielman (Akerman) 233

Jones, James 127

jouissance 178

Joyce, James 19, 94, 112, 236, 290; Finnegans Wake 26, 280; Ulysses 204, 285, 293

Kafka, Franz 25, 58, 82, 238, 290

Kant, Immanuel 2, 13, 109, 276, 285, 330n

Karl May – In Search of Paradise Lost (Syberberg) 97-99

Keaton, Buster 290

Kelly, Grace 296, 297

Kerouac, Jack 127; On the Road 128

Kertész, André 271

Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 57

Kierkegaard, Søren 22, 26

The Killing (Kubrick) 115

King, Stephen, The Shining 124, 127, 134

Kino-pravda 55

kitsch 218

knowable community 125, 129

Kojin, Karatani 330n; Origins of Modern Japanese Literature 6

Kortner, Fritz 90

Kracauer, Siegfried 254-256, 264-266, 271, 286, 288; From Caligari to Hitler 326n

Kubrick, Stanley 112, 117-134

Kurosawa, Akira 114, 219, 273

Lacan, Jacques 21, 140, 153, 173, 177, 183, 196, 206; Eleventh Seminar 192-193

Laclau, Ernesto 333n

Lacombe, Lucien (Bertolucci) 303

Lady in the Lake (Montgomery) 153

The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock) 151, 295

language 238-239; denotative or literal 221-222; of film 278; film as 140-141

Lasch, Christopher 83

Latin America 178; film in 179, 186, 191, 200

Lawrence, D. H. 104; Studies in Classic American Literature 6

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) 83

Lefebvre, Henri 324n

legitimation crisis 250

Lehar, Franz 95

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 242, 330n

leisure culture 254

leitmotif 106

Lem, Stanislaus 286

Lenin, V. I. 32

Léon, Cruz Elías 178

LeRoy, Mervyn, Little Caesar 202

LéVI-Strauss, Claude 293, 311

Lévi, Bernard-Henri 79

Lewis, P. Wyndham, Tyros 290

linear history 284

The Lodger (Hitchcock) 151, 152-155, 166-167

logic of content 189

London 267

Lotman, Jurii 213

Louis XIV, King 262

Lovecraft, H. P., The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward 124

Lu Xun, Brief History of Chinese Fiction 5

Ludwig II, King 90, 91, 97, 98, 99, 101, 105, 107

Lukács, Georg 6, 21, 64, 74, 94, 96, 102, 109, 125, 172, 179, 219, 304, 306, 322n, 327n; History and Class Consciousness 234; Soul and Forms 224, 325n; The Theory of the Novel 224, 325n

Lumet, Sidney 53

Lumière, Auguste and Louis 269

Lynch, Kevin 235

Lyotard, Jean-FrançOis 237, 311, 318n

M (Lang) 122

MacArthur, Douglas 54

MacCabe, Colin 215

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman) 115

McCarthy, Joseph 42

Macherey, Pierre, Towards a Theory of Literary Production 44

machine age 83

McLuhan, Marshall 170

McQueen, Steve 128

Mafia 201; myth of 40-45

Mafia movies 200, 202

magic realism 176-209

Magritte, Ren?82

Mahler, Gustav 218

Malamud, Bernard 58

Mallarmé Stéphane 285; Un coup de dès 282; Le Livre (project) 21, 280

Man, Paul de, 326n

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg) 115

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock) 150, 280, 287

Mandel, Ernest 84

Manet, Edouard 218

manipulation theory 30, 32, 39

Mann, Thomas 104, 112; Doctor Faustus 104, 257-258

Manson, Charles, murders 54

Marcuse, Herbert 12, 279-280; The Aesthetic Dimension 18

Marnie (Hitchcock) 152

marriage, in Hitchcock films 167

Marshall, Herbert 155

Marville, Charles 288

Marx, Karl 62, 70, 87, 88, 173, 246, 312; Capital 13, 225

Marxism 12, 21, 28, 46, 47-50, 63-65, 88, 311, 312, 333n

Mash (Altman) 115

mass production 84

materialism 248, 262

materiality 136

materialization 21-22

Maupassant, Guy de, Bel-Ami 243, 292

May, Karl 91, 97-99, 101, 107, 108

Mayer, Arno, The Persistence of the Old Regime 310

meaning, types of 139-140, 149

melancholy 287, 288-289, 291, 295, 308

melodrama 241

Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick 37

metageneric film 115-116, 120, 122-123

Method acting 58

Metz, Christian 140; Imaginary Signifier 170-171

Miami Vice 299

Michelet, Jules 95, 124

Michelson, Annette 133

Mills, C. Wright 68

Milton, John 290

The Missouri Breaks (Penn) 67, 115

Mitterrand, François 79, 80

modernism 213; Barthes and 110; concept of 21, 281-282; features of 276; filmic 272-273; high 278-279; and mass culture 20-22, 34; and modernization 310; as passivereceptive activity 224; and postmodernism 102-105, 113, 218-219; second 275; spurious aesthetic of 251; see also realism

modernization 253, 310, 312

molecular and molar 136-138, 195, 286

Molière 19

moment of truth 190

Monory, Jacques 78

montage 291-292

Montgomery, Robert 153

Moravia, Alberto, The Conformist 307-308

Moreau, Frédéric 58

Moretti, Franco 325n

Morin, Edgar 162, 239

Moses, Robert 253-254

motivation of the device 249

multinational corporations 42, 63, 68-72, 214-215

Munch, Edvard, Scream 82

murder, in Hitchcock films 139-140

Murder! (Hitchcock) 151, 155-159

music 86, 91; pop 26-27, 93; rock 115, 215, 334n

music-hall 290-291

musicals 115, 241, 242

Musil, Robert 290

Mussolini, Benito 269

My Beautiful Laundrette (Frears/Kureishi) 232

myth criticism 35-38

Nabokov, Vladimir 143, 144, 159, 164, 275, 282, 290

Naked Night (Bergman) 142, 157

Napoléon (Gance) 108

Napoleon I, Emperor 108

narrative 136-137, 247; and the body 203-204; commodification of 17; dual 166-170; entry into 180-181; episodic 295; grand 237, 306, 311; historical 252; and magic realism 178-179; master 310-311; neutralization of 205-206; perspective 181; point-ofview 180; and realism 176-177, 228; theory of 227; third and first person 159

NATO 108

Nazism 38, 39, 87, 101, 105, 109, 111, 185, 252; and art 253

Negt, Oskar, and Kluge, Alexander 277

neo-realism 55-56, 300

New Criticism 142, 158

New Deal 38, 41, 42, 49, 68

New Wave 235

Newark, New Jersey 61

Newhall, Beaumont, History of Photography 288

Newman, Paul 128

News from Home (Akerman) 235-238

Nicholson, Jack 121, 123, 127-130, 132, 134

Nietzsche, Friedrich 83, 87

The Night Porter (Bertolucci) 303

Nixon, Richard 102

Norinaga, Motoori 5

Norris, Frank 58

North by Northwest (Hitchcock) 150, 151, 295

nostalgia culture 57, 115-116, 132-133, 220, 309, 314

nostalgia film 179, 182, 187, 189, 196, 199, 261, 299, 302-308, 310; detective series 299; as nostalgia-deco film 310

Notorious (Hitchcock) 295

novel, and film 5-6, 23-24; historical 124-126; modernist 285; realist 215

Novello, Ivor 154, 159

objectivity 225

occult films 115, 122, 132

O’HARA, John 19, 68

Los Olvidados (Buñuel) 142

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman) 57

O’NEILL, Eugene 127

The Opportunist (Un hombre de exito) (Solas) 299, 301, 304

organic form 330n

organic work 284

Otherness 35, 96, 131-132

Our Hitler see Hitler, A Film from Germany

overdetermination 198

Pacino, Al 55-56, 58, 66, 67, 307

Paris Commune 79

parody 112

Parti socialiste (France) 80

Passion (Godard) 79, 336n

pastiche 112-113, 116, 123, 126

Paths of Glory (Kubrick) 115

Penn, Arthur 67

Percy, Esme 155

Performance (Roeg) 115

period theory 213-214

periodization 249

Perkins, Anthony 156

philosophy 230

photography 222-223, 256; “fiction” 262-263; still 262-265

photorealism 78

physical reality 254

Picasso, Pablo 112-113

Pirandello, Luigi 262

Plato 192-193

Platonov, Andrei 82

play 269, 302-303

pleasure 303;

bonus of 302

plotlessness 276 285

Point Blank (Boorman) 246

point of view 152-153, 182, 186-187

Poland 178, 190, 207-208

Polanski, Roman 112

political content of films 52-53, 93, 110-111, 238

Pollock, Jackson 19

Ponge, Francis 223

Popular Front 77, 79

populism 11-12, 49, 79, 272

pornography 1, 119, 203, 302

Portrait of Teresa (Vega) 233

Portugal, revolution (1974) 259

postmodernism 83, 84-85, 102, 113, 115, 152, 182, 198, 213, 216, 218; and art deco 314; concept of 221, 257, 298; and rock music 215; and video 217

poststructuralism 22, 152, 216

Pound, Ezra 104 285

Powell, William 242

Pravda 34

Presley, Elvis 215

printing 337n

Private Eye 299

production, modes of 190

proletkult 222

Proust, Marcel 2, 26, 104, 144, 146, 203, 218, 262, 283, 285, 288, 295

Psycho (Hitchcock) 118-119, 122, 152, 156, 163-168, 287, 289, 296

psychoanalysis 133, 281

psychobiography 202

public sphere 277

punctum 183

punk film 232, 300, 302

Puzo, Mario, The Godfather 44

Pynchon, Thomas 18, 109, 115

Queneau, Raymond 77

A Question of Silence (Gorris) 233

Quintet (Altman) 115

Racine, Jean 201

Radiant City 280

Ray, Satyajit 273

realism 213-273; defined 232; as demiurgic praxis 223; filmic 254-256; Hollywood 220, 239-244; literary 222; and modernism 223-226, 231; and narrative 228, 255; non-fictionality of 229; and photography 263; and the unspoken 229-230; as unstable concept 217-218

Rear Window (Hitchcock) 167, 295, 296, 320n

recognition 163, 170

Red Brigade 29

Redgrave, Vanessa 267-268

Reed, Ishmael 215

Reflections of a Golden Eye 201

reflexivity 115, 133

La Région centrale (Snow) 235

La Régle du Jeu (Renoir) 256

reification 12, 14, 21-22, 151, 162, 172-173, 264, 278, 284; of daily life 94; and dereification 100-101, 102, 259; of figural system 106

religion 80, 102-103, 157, 159, 254-255

Renoir, Jean 104, 255-256, 265, 266, 273

repetition 22-27

representation 189, 224, 228, 238-239, 241, 251

repression 32-33, 34

reproduction 82, 84-85, 302

Requiem for a Virgin King (Syberberg) 97

resolutions 81

Restoration (France) 80

retroactivity 26

Riley, Terry 18

Rilke, Rainer Maria 104

ritual 232

Robbe-Grillet, Alain 23, 203, 228

Robinson, Edward G. 41

Roeg, Nicholas 112

Rohmer, Eric 141, 157

Rolling Stones 215

romance 138, 159

romantic comedy 241, 242

Romanticism 80

Rome 267

La Ronde (Ophüls) 183

Rope (Hitchcock) 142, 320n

Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski) 115

Rossellini, Roberto 266

Roth, Philip 58

Rothman, William, Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze 136-141, 150, 151-154, 156-171, 173-175

Russia 132

Russian Formalism 249, 308

Saboteur (Hitchcock) 150, 157

Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin 5

Salt of the Earth (Biberman) 30

San Francisco Mime Troop 30

Sartre, Jean-Paul 32, 57, 101, 173, 247, 248, 327n; and bad faith 250; Flaubert trilogy 64; Nausea 7, 104, 270; Psychology of Imagination 72; Saint Genêt 117; What is Literature? 233

Saussure, Ferdinand de 194, 196

Scarface (Hawks) 202

Schiller, Friedrich 269

Schlegel, A. W. and K. W. F. von 159

Schneider, Romy 90

Schoenberg, Arnold 18, 19, 113

science fiction films 95, 115, 119, 131, 133

scopic drive 192

scopophilia 296-298

Scott, Ridley 305-307

Scott, Sir Walter 109-110

Screen group 219-220, 228

screwball comedy 241

self-consciousness 216, 220, 266

Sennett, Richard 83

sentences, filmic 3, 287

The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 283

Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock) 151, 156, 163, 164, 167

Shakespeare, William 19

Shepherd case 54

The Shining (Kubrick) 115, 118-134, 336n

Shirer, William 111

Shumyatsky, Boris 252

Sigal, Clancy 30

silent film 216

Silverberg, Robert, Dying Inside 121

Sim, Alastair 297

Simenon, Georges 19

Snow, Michael 235

social experience 236

social reality 309

social/socialist realism, Soviet 241, 251, 252, 272, 300, 310

Solas, Humberto 307

Solidarity 207

Sollers, Philippe 115

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 80

Sontag, Susan 100, 298, 319n

sound film 216-217, 239, 242-243, 245, 251-252

space, transformation of 226

spatial form 203

spatial grid 237

Speer, Albert 95, 111

Spellbound (Hitchcock) 142, 152, 287

Spengler, Oswald 213

Spielberg, Steven 34

Spinoza, Benedict 276

Spinrad, Norman, The Iron Dream 95

Spoto, Donald 320n

spy movies 115

Stage Fright (Hitchcock) 296-297

Stalin, Josef 254

Stalinism 252-253

star system 71-72, 73-74, 239

Stein, Gertrude 23, 24; Four in America 101

Stendhal (Henri Beyle) 24, 219, 294

stereotypes 25, 229, 310

Stevens, Wallace 12, 19

Stevenson, R. L. 258

Stewart, James 287, 296, 297, 320n

Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch) 232

Strangers on a Train 142, 151

Stravinsky, Igor 104, 112, 116

Stroheim, Erich von 114, 217, 252, 265

students’ movement 49

Sturgeon, Theodore, More than Human 121

style 112-113

subject, death of 238

subjectivism 113

subjectivity 276

substance 189

Sullivan, Louis 218

Suspicion (Hitchcock) 154, 164

Syberberg, Amelie 90

Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen 86-111

tableau 316n

Taine, Hippolyte 5

The Tale of Genji 5

Tati, Jacques 290

technological determinism 246

technology 84, 116, 198, 244-245, 248-253

Teixeira, João Pedro 261

Tel Quel 15, 21, 22, 31

television 8, 11, 24, 61, 72, 250, 291, 299; “aesthetic bankruptcy” of 25; fictional documentaries 54-55

testimonio 222, 257

Thalberg, Irving 252

theatricality 162, 163

theatricalization 321n

Third World 63, 69, 81, 132, 198, 300

The 39 Steps (Hitchcock) 152, 155, 159-163, 168, 295

The Threepenny Opera (Brecht/Weill) 94

thrillers 115

To Catch a Thief (Hitchcock) 150

Todd, Richard 296-297

Tolstoy, Leo 219

Tommy (Russell) 93

Topaz (Hitchcock) 150

Torn Curtain 150

Torre Bella (Harlan) 259-260

totality 293-294

totalization 94

Tovey, Donald 151

tragedy, Greek 19

translation/ transcoding 136

Trevor-Roper, Hugh 111

Trintignant, Jean-Louis 307-308

trompe-l’oeil 192-193

The Trouble with Harry (Hitchcock) 142, 150

Truman, Harry S. 54

truth 220, 240, 262, 273, 303

Tutuola, Amos 177

twelve-tone music 275

2001 (Kubrick) 115, 117, 133

UFA 99

Unconscious 83, 220, 277

unification 181, 182-183

Utopianism 39-40, 43, 45-46, 70, 80, 83, 85, 88, 96, 99, 121, 130, 233, 244, 279, 293

valorization, of aesthetic 219; of reflexive 220

Van Dyke, W. S. II 242-243

Veblen, Thorstein 132

Vega, Pastor 233

Venezuela 190

Verne, Jules 97, 98

Vertigo (Hitchcock) 114, 118, 150, 152, 296

Vidal, Gore 34

video 217

Videodrome (Cronenberg) 302

Vietnam war 29, 59, 70, 132

The Village of the Damned (Rilla) 121

violence 190, 203

Viridiana (Buñuel) 284, 316n

Voltaire, Candide 77

Voroshinov, Valentin 290

Vorster, B. J. 29

voyeurism 296

Wagner, Richard 86, 87, 89, 91, 94, 101, 105, 106, 108, 110

Wagner, Winifred 90, 91

Wajda, Andrzej 273

war movies 115

Washington, George 101

Watergate affair 59, 102

Wayne, John 95

Weber, Eva 252

Weber, Max 12, 201, 219, 337n

Weekend in Guatemala (Asturias) 191

Weimar 86

Wellek, René, and Warren, Austin 245

Welles, Orson 266, 273, 275

Wenders, Wim 303

westerns 114, 115, 241, 308

Weston, Edward 263

wide screen 244, 246

Williams, Raymond 125

Williams, William Carlos, Paterson 120

Winters, Yvor 293

wish-fulfillment 244, 293

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 93

Wollen, Peter 247-248, 337-338n

women, in film 296

women’s film 233

women’s movement 49

Woolf, Virginia 285

World War II 95

WPA art 252, 253

Wright, Richard 215

Wright, Will, Sixguns and Society 41

Wright Brothers 101

Wyeth, Andrew 19

Wyman, Jane 297

Yates, Frances, Art of Memory 324n

Young, Lamonte 18

Yurick, Sol 30

Zoetrope Studios 108

Zola, Emile 255, 285, 316n; Au bonheur des dames 243; La Bête humaine 181; Le Ventre de Paris 181