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Editor's preface -- Introduction -- A degraded spectacle. The interpreter and the sensualist -- Roman hair -- A Cold War cinema -- Demystification, 1957 "The face of Garbo" -- Rrefresh the perception of the world. "On cinemascope"; Barthes and the New Wave -- Barthes and Bazin. Lost continent; From ontology to rhetoric and back; Camera Lucida -- Another revolution. The fetishist; Eisenstein, 1970; Coda: From leftocracy to affect and intimacy -- Leaving the movie theater. The science of filmology; Apparatus theory; The aestheticization of the World; A long conversation with Christian Metz; Leaving theory -- The melodramatic imagination. The Brontë sisters; The New Wave's melodramatic turn -- Michel Foucault's melodramatic imagination; Barthes and Foucault -- Barthes and Truffaut: Melodramatic photography; Conclusion: From Barthes to Rancière -- Interview with Jacques Rancière -- Nine texts on the cinema by Roland Barthes: Angels of sin (Les anges du péché, 1943) -- On CinemaScope -- Versailles and its accounts -- Cinema, right and left -- On left wing criticism -- Traumatic units in cinema: research principles -- Preface to Les inconnus de la terre (Strangers of the Earth, Mario Ruspoli, 1961) -- Answer to a Question about James Bond -- Sade -- Pasolini -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
