Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

A HUNDRED YEARS, A CENTURY

1 THE GAZE OF ITS AGE

“De l’art et du traffic”

If Orestes Becomes Rio Jim

“Laideur et beauté”

Film, Twentieth Century

2 FRAMING THE WORLD

The Eagle, the Fly and the Emperor

What Ever Happened to the Black Man?

With Closed Eyes

Nostalgia for Something

3 DOUBLE VISION

Properties of the Gaze

And What Do You Know About Him?

A Face, the Eyes

The Law, a Rifle, and Memory

Observing, Reconstructing, Inventing

Exercises in Recognition

The Eye at Stake

4 THE GLASS EYE

The Mechanism of Life

The Monkey with the Camera

Notebooks of M. K, operator

King Kong on Broadway

Resisting the Light

The Beast and the Marionette

5 STRONG SENSATIONS

Intensification of the Nervous Life

Running Against Time

Reason and Sensation

Constructing Emotions

6 THE PLACE OF THE OBSERVER

In the Heart of Things

Josh’s Lesson

John Sims in the Audience

Thomas, Watching

The Lost Position

7 GLOSSES, OXYMORONS, AND DISCIPLINE

The Circuit of Social Discourses

To Give a Form, to Negotiate

Discipline of the Eye

REMAINS OF THE DAY