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Dedication and Acknowledgments Starting Out in Film Criticism One. The Critical Apparatus Introduction Theory and Practice: The Criticism of Jean-Luc Godard Film Comment Journals, 1974-1977: Excerpts Edinburgh Encounters: A Consumers/Producers Guide-in-Progress to Four Recent Avant-Garde Films Barthes & Film: 12 Suggestions A Bluffer's Guide to Bela Tarr They Drive by Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber Two. Touchstones Introduction Ozu's GOOD MORNING Aspects of ANATAHAN Gold Diggers of 1953: Howard Hawks's GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES GERTRUD as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE OTHELLO Goes Hollywood Three. Filinmakers Introduction Work and Play in the House of Fiction: On Jacques Rivette The Tyranny of Sensitivity Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective The Death of Hulot Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: A Two-Part Speculation The Importance of Being Perverse: Godard's KING LEAR Alain Resnais and MELO Four. Provocations Introduction Jerry Lewis's HARDLY WORKING DOOMED LOVE: The Masterpiece You Missed RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Mapping the Territory of Rlh11 Ruiz Notes Toward the Devaluation of Woody Allen Crass Consciousness: BARTON FINK Five. Inside and Outside the Movie Theater Introduction Bird Watching Jean Vigo's Secret: L' ATALANTE Guilty by Omission His Master's Vice: Fuller's WHITE DOG Government Lies: THE PANAMA DECEPTION and DEEP COYER A Cinema of Uncertainty: Films by Michelangelo Antonioni Bibliography Index

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