Mysteries of cinema : reflections on film theory, history and culture, 1982-2016

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PART I[-]LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION[-]1. Retying the Threads [-]2. The Path and the Passeur [-]3. That Summer Feeling [-][-]PART II[-]SCENOGRAPHIES[-][-]4. Scenes [-]5. Wishful Thinking [-]6. Entities and Energies [-]7. Entranced [-][-]PART III[-]A CINEPHILE IN AUSTRALIA[-]8. No Flowers for the Cinephile: The Fates of Cultural Populism [-][-]PART IV[-]THE LYRICAL IMPULSE[-]9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space [-]10. The Trouble with Fiction [-]11. Ball of Fire: The Mysteries [-]12. The Ever-Tested Limit: Cinematic Apparitions [-]13. Delirious Enchantment [-][-]PART V[-]GENRE GAMES[-][-]14. Mr Big: Gangsters and Power [-]15. Unlawful Entries: Anatomy of a Film Cycle [-]16. Lady, Beware: Paths of the Female Gothic [-]17. Live to Tell: Teen Movies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow [-]18. In the Mood for (Something Like) Love [-]19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort: Sadism and Sublimation in Contemporary Cinema [-][-]PART VI[-]INTERVENTIONS[-]20. Making a Bad Script Worse: The Curse of the Scriptwriting Manual [-]21. The Offended Critic: Film Reviewing and Social Commentary [-]22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Precarious, Unstable Reality [-][-]PART VII[-]ENVOI [-]23. No Direction Home: Creative Criticism [-]24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses [-]25. My Back Pages [-]26. The File We Accompany, with Cristina lvarez L pez [-]Notes [-]Sources of Texts [-]Index