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