CONTENTS

 

Foreword to the 2004 Edition

Introduction

An Aesthetic of Reality: Cinematic Realism and the Italian School of the Liberation

La Terra Trema

Bicycle Thief

De Sica: Metteur en Scène

Umberto D: A Great Work

Cabiria: The Voyage to the End of Neorealism

In Defense of Rossellini

The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux

Limelight, or the Death of Molière

The Grandeur of Limelight

The Western, or the American Film par excellence

The Evolution of the Western

Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl

The Outlaw

Marginal Notes on Eroticism in the Cinema

The Destiny of Jean Gabin

Notes

Index