The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (Paperback)

Preamble: The Viewer as "Mark" Of Scripts 1. Yesterdays 2. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 3. Narrative Transparency 4. The Cheating Cut 5. Narrative Opacity 6. The Narrator Hides 7. Taxi Cheat 8. And Here Endeth my Tale 9. Only Pretending 10. Keeping Minutes Of Performing 11. Monster! 12. A Star, Not a Star 13. Pain 14. Measuring Up 15. Privacy 16. Signed 17. Keyed Up 18. Don't Believe It 19. "I Love You" 20. Surrender Of Cameras 21. Corral 22. Show Me 23. On the Road 24. "Good Cinematography" 25. "Look at the Picture" 26. Peek-a-Boo 27. Moving On 28. Behind the Camera Behind 29. All the Way Not to Holland Of Scenes 30. No There There 31. Where are We? 32. Walk on the Wild Side 33. Happy Trails 34. The Thing 35. Heist 36. The Reality Effect 37. Stand-ins 38. A Superheroic Universe Of Cuts 39. Believe in Me 40. Over Thames 41. Something is Happening 42. Veni creator spiritus 43. "Bite the Dust" 44. Reflect on That 45. Presence and Presentation 46. By Contrast 47. The Blood Effect 48. Our Cheating Heart: Not an Introduction Bibliography Index