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abandonment
Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision (Stevens)
Abenaa
Abuba, Ernesto: as King Tito
acknowledgment
actionism. See Viennese Actionists actor’s role
actor trilogy. See also The Blackout; Dangerous Game; and New Rose Hotel
Addiction, The (1995); devouring in; fury in; and history; knowledge in; morality and revolution in; and philosophy; protagonist’s trajectory in; and the question of evil
adjuration
Adorno, Theodor W.
After Hours (Scorsese)
agitprop
AIDS
alcoholism
Aldrich, Robert
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
alienation
allegory
Alvarez, Santiago
American cinema
“American Condition, The” (“La Condition américaine”)
American economy
American ideology
American imaginary
American imperialism
American “No Wave”
American Way of Life
Amino, Yoshitaka: as Hiroshi
amorality
anamnesis
anamorphosis. See also Ferrara’s films: anamorphic structure of
Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable (Nameth)
anger
anguish
Ann Uyen
Antigone (Straub/Huillet)
Anwar, Gabrielle, as Marti
archetype
Argento, Asia: as Sandii
Argento, Dario
Argo, Victor: as Cop Bishop
art dealers
artistic torment. See torment
artist trilogy
Augustine
Auschwitz. See also Nazism: Nazi or death camps
avant-garde
B., Scott and Beth
Bad Lieutenant (1992); death in; dreams and visions in; forgiveness; formal invention in; the protagonist’s trajectory; rage in; about redemption in; structure of the film
Baldwin, James
barbarity
Bataille, Georges
Baudelaire, Charles
Bazelli, Bojan
Bazin, André
Becker, Jacques
Ben Folds Five
Benjamin, Walter
Berenger, Tom: as Matt
Bergman, Ingrid
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Bickford, Charles: as Oliver Niles
Binoche, Juliette: as Marie Palesi/Mary Magdalene
Binswanger, Ludwig
Black Liberation, (Black America; Silent Revolution) (Laurot, Edouard de)
Blackout, The (1997); allegory in; creating images; critics on; death in; drinking in (see also alcoholism); epilogue of; facing the crime; facing violence; figurative elements in; figure of the serial killer in; forms of disruptive perception; Matty and Mickey; the protagonist of; purpose of delirium; reception of; representing psychic images; structure of
Black Panthers
Blake, William
Blanchot, Maurice
Blank, Les
Blasetti, Alessandro
bloody balls
body exploitation. See sexual abuse
Body Snatchers (1993); alienation and the double in; allegory in; and evil; family questions in; and history; the individual in; influences on; metamorphosis in; as a remake; serial killer figure in; status of the feminine
Body Snatchers, The (Jack Finney)
Boetticher, Budd
Bogdanovich, Peter
Boltanski, Christian
Brakhage, Stan
Brancato, Lillo: as The Man
Brando, Marlon
Bringing Out the Dead (Scorsese)
Bronx, the. See also New York Brooks, Louise
Brus, Günther
Bulteau, Michel
Bulgakov, Mikhaïl
Burden of Dreams (Blank)
Burroughs, William S.
Burrows, Robin: as Ariane
Cabral, Amílcar
Cage, Nicolas
“California” (1996)
capitalism; as catastrophe; figures of
Carlito’s Way (De Palma)
Carroll, Lewis
Carruthers, Ben
Caruso, David: as Mercury
Casino (Scorsese)
Cassavetes, John
Cat Chaser (1989)
Cat People (Tourneur)
Cavalcanti, Alberto
Chang, Sari: as Tye
Chaplin, Charles
characters: ethical existence of; projects of
Chin, Joey: as Larry Wong; as Tsu
China Girl (1987)
Christian imagery
Christianity
CIA
Cineaste
cinema: and contemporary evil (see also evil); as delirious apparatus; and history (see also history); as psychic apparatus
Cinema Engagé (Engaged Cinema) group
Cinémathèque Française
Cinéthique group
Clerget, Sébastien
Closed on Account of Rabies: Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
compassion
conjuration
conscience trilogy
consciousness
consumerism
conversion
Cooper, Gary
corruption
Coup d’Etat
creation
crime, criminal logics, order
Crime Story (1986)
criminal figures. See also serial killer
cruel, cruelty
Cruz, Joseph Micheal: as Paulo
Cukor, George
cultural consumption. See culture industry
culture industry
Dafoe, Willem: as X
Dalle, Béatrice; as Annie 1
Dangerous Game (Snake Eyes, 1993); artist trilogy; avidity in; death in; delirium in; destruction in; devouring; double in; film within the film; identity; status of the actor; script
Darty Report, The (Godard)
Davies, Ossie
Day, Baybi: as Pamela
Dead Combo
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
death; and creation (see creation); and its archaic resonances. See also murder; suicide DeCegli, Nicholas: as a dealer
DeCurtis, Frank
Deer Hunter, The (Cimino)
Dee Williams, Billy: as Detective Wheeler
Delia, Joe
delirium; clinical forms; films; local; opposed to normal perception; total
dementia
democratic capitalism: American
denial
De Niro, Robert
De Palma, Brian
devastation
devouring
Dick, Vivienne
disillusion
dissolution
documentary image. See image Don Quixote (Welles)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
double
Driller Killer, The (1979); artistic torment in; delirium in; formal structures of; fury in; murder in; music in; parties in; tramps of
drugs, addictions, booze, junkies:. See also alcoholism; delirium
Duras, Marguerite
Durkheim, Emile
“Dutch Oven, The” (episode 27). See Miami Vice
Dylan, Bob
Dziga Vertov group
economic alienation. See capitalism
ecstasy
editing. See also montage
8 and a Half (Fellini)
engulfment
Ermey, R. Lee: as General Platt
Escape from L.A. (Carpenter)
Esposito. See also Ferrara, Abel
Esposito, Giancarlo
ethical stakes in Ferrara’s œuvre; depiction of death; figurative deontology or ethic of forms; from one film to another
Europa 51 (Rossellini)
Eustache, Jean
evil; attributes of; collective; facing evil; history of; modern evil; origin of all; the question of evil; reflection and evil; as spatial and mental invasion; transformation of
exaltation
existentialism
expiation
exploitation
fable
Factory, Warholian. See also Warhol
Falco, Edie: as Jean
“Fall of the House of Usher, The” (Poe)
family issues
Fanon, Frantz
Far from Vietnam. See Ray, Michèle
Far from Vietnam (Marker)
Farina, Denis: as Michael Torello
Farmer, Frances
Farmer, Mylène. See also “California”
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Fear City (1984); delirium in; figure of the double in; fury and serial killing in; violence in
Fellini, Federico
femme fatale
Ferrara, Abel: birth and early years of; early films of; on film and video; as the first rapist; on God; his conception of history (see also history); on his films; his projects; his relation to music and cinema; and other filmmakers; on other filmmakers; on politics (see also politics); public image; as Reno; self-portrait as a corpse; team of collaborators; as tragedian; videos (see also “California”)
Ferrara, Nancy; as Madlyn
Ferrara’s cinema: aesthetic limitations; and American audiences; American studios; anthropological horizons of; within cultural industry; dynamics of; ethical stakes in (see ethical stakes); figurative work in; and genre cinema; importance of the image (see also image); between industry and avant-garde; international recognition of; polemical enterprise of; prototypes in (see also specific film titles); remakes; social issues in
Ferrara’s films: anamorphic structure of; the “artist” and “consciousness” trilogies; beauty in; delirium (see also delirium); dynamics among; narrative structures in; retrospective of. See also specific film titles
film and music
Film Culture
film within the film. See also mise en abyme
Finney, Jack
Fishburne, Larry: as Jimmy Jump
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
Fleming, Victor
Ford, John
forgiveness
Foster, John: as Pazzo
“490”. See also Lund
Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder)
Frankfurt School
fraternity
Free University of New York
French underground
Freud, Sigmund
Fukasaku, Kinji
Funeral, The (1996); characters in; death and sacrifice in; ending of; a family fable; fury in; the narrator in; politics in
fury
Gallo, Vincent: as Johnny
Gangs of New York (Scorsese)
Garel, Alain
Garland, Judy; as Vicky Lester
Gazzara, Ben
genocide
genre cinema
Gentry, Minnie: as the old woman
Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)
Getino, Octavio
Giuliani, Rudolph
Gladiator, The (1986)
Godard, Jean-Luc
Goldman, Emma
Gospel According to Matthew, The (Pasolini)
grace
Gramsci, Antonio
Grandeur and Decadence of a Small-Time Filmmaker (Godard)
Grand International Revolutionary Style
Griffith, D. W.
Griffith, Melanie: as Loretta
Guérif, François
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”
guilt; collective historical
Gulf War. See also war
Gutaï Independent Group. See Japanese performers
hallucination
Hamill, Pete: as a journalist
Hanson, Marla
Hark, Tsui
HBO. See Love on the A Train
Hegel, Georg W. F.
Hellman, Monte
Henry, Patrick, vii
Heraclitus
Hershey, Barbara
Herzog, Werner
Hesiod
Hipp, Paul: as Ghouly
Hiroshima
historical abomination. See also AIDS, evil, Nazism, war
historical guilt. See also guilt
historic evil. See also evil
history: reflections on
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hobbes, Thomas
Ho Chi Minh
Hold Up, The (1972)
Hollywood; within
Holocaust
Holocaust (Chomsky)
“Home Invaders, The” (episode 20). See Miami Vice
Hopper, Dennis; as filmmaker; as Mickey
Horkheimer, Max
Hot Ticket (Lund). See also Lund
Howard, Freddy: as Emilio Zapa
How Can We Bear It? (Boltanski)
hubris. See also fury, rage
Huillet, Danièle
human; future of; psyche
Husserl, Edmund
hypermorality
hyperrealism
Ice-T: as the cop
iconography of crime. See also specific film titles
identity
idol
illusion
image: depicting the world; documentary image (see also The Addiction); importance of; making images (see also creation); mental or psychic (see also delirium; perception; psychic event; and specific titles of films); the missing image (see also The Blackout; New Rose Hotel); of the mother (see mother imagery); power of the; relation between metal and concrete image; status of the; as trauma
individual
industrialization
industrial pollution
inebriation
infinitude
infinity
intoxication
introjection
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)
Iraq War
Jack the Ripper
Jankowski, Celene
Japanese fascism
Japanese performers
Jarmusch, Jim
Jesus. See also Christian imagery
Johnson, Don: as Sonny Crockett
Julian, Janet: as Jennifer
Julien, Jay: as Abraham
Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini)
Kane, Mary
Kant, Emmanuel
Karina, Anna
Kaufman, Philip
Keitel, Harvey; as Eddie; as L. T.
Kelsch, Ken
Kennedy, John F.: presidential campaign
Keres, goddesses of punishment
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (Cassavetes)
Kim Phuc. See also The Addiction
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King of New York (1990); Abel Ferrara on; crime in; death in; drug economy; ending of; Frank’s project; the individual in; mafia in; passion in; revolt; violence in
Kinney, Terry: as Steve
Kitano, Takeshi
knowledge
lack
Lacombe, Georges
Lancaster, Burt
Lang, Fritz
La Revue du cinéma
Lassez, Sarah: as Annie
Last Movie, The (Hopper)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (Scorsese)
Laurot, Edouard de
law
Léaud, Jean-Pierre
Lee, Bruce
Leguizamo, John
Lenin, Vladimir Ilych
Letter to Freddy Buache (Godard)
Levi, Primo
Lili Marleen (Fassbinder)
Listen America (de Laurot)
Locarno Film Festival
Loner, The (1988)
Lorenzetti
Losey, Joseph
loss
Lost Highway (Lynch)
Love Meetings (Pasolini)
Love on the A Train (1997)
Lucky to be a Woman (Blasetti)
Lucretius
Lund, Zoë; as co-scriptwriter; as director (see Hot Ticket); as Thana; as writer; as Zoë
Lynch, David
madness
Madonna; as Sarah/Claire
mafia; and capitalism; Chinese Triad; Italian Mafia; mafia logic
Main Line (Bulteau)
Malcolm X
Mao Tse Tung
Manhattan. See also New York Marker, Chris
Martin, Adrian
Marx, Karl
Mary (2005); script
Mary Magdalene
Marz, Carolyn: as Carol
Mason, James; as Norman Maine
massacres; My Lai; Serbian massacre. See also The Addiction
Massina, Giulietta
Master and Margarita, The (Bulgakov)
maternal: depiction of the. See also mother imagery
Matteo, Drea de: as the wife
McGillis, Kelly: as Mary
McGlone, Mike: as John T.
McIntyre, John Paul
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
Medea (Pasolini)
Medusa: myth of
Meins, Holger
Mekas, Adolfas
Mekas, Jonas
memories
Menschen am Sonntag (Siodmak)
mental image. See image
metamorphosis
Miami Vice, (1985); “The Dutch Oven” (episode 27); “The Home Invaders” (episode 20)
Milian, Tomas: as Andres De Boya
Milton, John
Minima Moralia (Adorno)
Mirage, The (Weiss)
mise en abyme. See also film within the film mise en scène
Modine, Matthew; as Matty; as Tony Childress
Mol, Gretchen: as the pregnant wife; as singer
monochromes
Monroe, Marilyn
montage
Montreal, Rhodney (Douglas Metrov): as Tony Coca-Cola
morality (see also ethical stakes); unbearable as hypermorality (see also hypermorality; negativity)
Morrison, Mrs. Norman. See also Far from Vietnam
Moss, Lambert: as Veronica
mother imagery
Mother of Mirrors. See also Dangerous Game
Ms .45 (Angel of Vengeance, 1981); delirium; evil in; fury; revenge; serial killer in; sexual abuse; solitude of the protagonist; structure of the film
Munk, Andrzej
murder; by snatching
Murnau, F. W.
Murphy, Reilly: as Andy; as Tommy
music video
Nagasaki
Nameth, Ronald
Nazism; moral catastrophe provoked by; Nazi or death camps
negation; and evil
negative
negativity; as moral source; as a speculative asset
New Rose Hotel (1998); confusion in; evil in; forms of lack in; the human in; image of the capitalist system in; plot of; simulation; status of the feminine; structure of; the universal killer in
Newsreel group in America
New York
Nietzsche, Friedrich
nightmare
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976)
Nitsch, Hermann
Nosferatu (Murnau)
Novak, Kim
œuvre. See also Ferrara’s cinema; works of art
Oliverio, Nicodemo. See St. John
Oskar Langenfeld (Meins)
Paisà (Rossellini)
Palestine
palinopsia
Pandora: the myth of
Panebianco, Richard: as Tony
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Paramount
party, parties. See also bloody balls
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
passion
Penn, Chris; as Chez
perception: deregulation of the fundamental principles of
Perez, Rosie: as “the girl”
permanence
persistence
Philonenko, Alexis
Phoids, The
Photos d’Alix (Eustache)
Poe, Edgar Allan
Polanski, Roman
polemical enterprise. See Ferrara’s cinema
Polish underground
political critique: forms of. See also capitalism; revolution
political questioning. See also ethical stakes
political radicalism. See also Laurot; revolt; revolution
politics: in Ferrara’s films
popular culture
possession
Prison Notebooks (Gramsci)
“Prolepsis” (Laurot)
“Promethea” (Laurot)
propagation
Proust, Marcel
Psyche
psychic event; image, state, process or complex (see also image); investigation
punk films
rage
rape. See sexual abuse Rauger, Jean-François
Ray, Michèle
Ray, Nicholas
realism
reality. See also perception
redemption
Redman, Anthony
reflection
reflexivity
Reinhardt, Ad
remanence
reminiscence. See also memories
Rendez-vous de Juillet (Becker)
reparation
repentance
Repulsion (Polanski)
Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
revelation
revenge. See also vengeance
revolt
revolution
revolutionaries
Rien que les heures (Cavalcanti)
Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The (Boetticher)
Rome Open City (Rossellini)
Rosenbaum, Jonathan
Rossellini, Roberto
Rotterdam Film Festival
Ruggiero, Anthony: as Lite
Ruperto, Maria: as Luci
Russo, James: as Frank Burns/Russell
‘R Xmas (2001)
sacrifice
Santiago, Saundra: as Gina
Santo Domingo. See Cat Chaser
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Scénario du film Passion (Godard)
Scenes from Rotterdam (ass. De Jong). See Hot Ticket
Schelling, Friedrich
Schiffer, Claudia; as Susan
Schindler’s List (Spielberg)
Schneemann, Carolee
Schoolly D
Schultz, Harry: as Briggs
Schygulla, Hannah
Sciorra, Annabella; as Casanova; as Jean; as Madame Rosa
Scorsese, Martin
SCUM Manifesto (Solanas, V.)
Second Front
self: annihilation; consciousness; destruction; liquidation; revelation
Selznick, David O.
serial killer
79 Springs (Alvarez)
sexual abuse, sexual harassment, body exploitation, violence, rape
Shadows (Cassavetes)
Siegel, Don
Siodmak, Robert
Smith, Gavin
Snatchers
snatching
Snow, Michael
Solanas, Fernando
Solanas, Valerie
solitude
somatization
soundtrack
Spelling, Aaron
standard imagery. See also culture industry
Stanislavski/Strasberg Method of Acting
Star Is Born, A (Cukor)
Starship Troopers, (Verhoeven)
Les Statues meurent aussi (Marker/Resnais)
status of the image
Stembera, Peter
Stendhal Syndrome, The (Argento, D.)
Sternberg, Josef von
Stevens, Brad
St. John, Nicholas
“strange cinema”
Straub, Jean-Marie
Strawberry, Darryl
stroboscope: use of
Stroheim, Erich von
Stromboli (Rossellini)
Strummer, Joe
Stuto, Darlene: as Laurie
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground (1997). See also Love on the A Train
suicide
Sylvie and Bruno (Carroll)
Tarantino, Quentin
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Taylor, Lili; as Kathy
Terry, John: as Michael Shane
Theorem (Pasolini)
Theory of Religion (Bataille)
They Live (John Carpenter)
Thing Called Love, The (Bogdanovich)
Thorn, Frankie: as the raped nun
Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
Tilly, Meg: as Carol
Titans: the myth of the
Titian
torment; artistic or creative torment; tormented characters
Tourneur, Jacques
tract: film-tract; visual
trance
transgression
translation: visual, formal
trauma
Triad, The. See mafia
Truck, The (Duras)
Trump, Donald
truth
Un altro Festival (de Laurot, Munk)
unbearable
unconsciousness
United States. See also American cinema industry, Ferrara
universality
unlimited: forms of the
vampire, vampirism
vampirization
Velez, Fernando: as Julio
vengeance
Venice Film Festival
Vera Cruz (Aldrich)
Verhoeven, Paul
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Vertov, Dziga
Viennese Actionists
Viet-Flakes (Schneemann)
Vietnam War; images of
video. See also The Blackout; “California”; music video
Vidor, King
Vigo, Jean
Village of the Damned (Carpenter)
violence. See also massacres; murder; sexual abuse
Violent Cop (Kitano)
visionary
visions. See also hallucination
Wager, The
Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
Wahl, Ken: as Rick Benton
Walken, Christopher; as Fox; as Frank White; as Peina; as Ray
war. See also Gulf War, Iraq War, Vietnam War
Warhol, Andy
Warner Brothers
Weiss, Peter
Weller, Peter: as George Moran
Welles, Orson
West, Mae
Western civilization
Western conception
Western economic world
Western imaginary
Western philosophy
Western subjectivity
Whitaker, Forest: as Major Collins; as Ted Younger
Wiseman, Frederick
Wizard of Oz, The (Fleming)
Woman under the Influence, A (Cassavetes)
Wong, Russell: as Yung
works of art
Wynroth, Alan: as the landlord
Yomini Independent Group
Zois, Christ; as the psychoanalyst
Zone, La (Lacombe)