Fetishism and Curiosity : Cinema and the Mind's Eye (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Acknowledgments.- Preface.- Introduction.- PART I: WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?.- 1. Americantitis: European Intellectuals and Hollywood Melodrama.- 2. Social Hieroglyphics: Reflections on Two Films by Douglas Sirk.- 3. Close-ups and Commodities.- PART II: DIALECTICS OF DIVISION.- 4. Pandora's Box: Topographies of Curiosity.- 5. Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman 1977-87.- 6. The Hole and the Zero: Godard's Vision of Femininity.- PART III: DOLLAR-BOOK FREUD.- 7. From Log Cabin to Xanadu: Psychoanalysis and History in Citizen Kane.- 8. The Carapace that Failed: Ousmane Sembene's Xala.- 9. Netherworlds and the Unconscious: Oedipus and Blue Velvet.- 10. Postscript Changing Objects, Preserving Time.- Notes.- Index.