Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism (Paperback)

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