Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Introduction: The Film of Value

pp ix-xii

Part I - Film Genres, Film Classics, and Film Aesthetics

pp 1-2

1 - Shooting the City: The Gangster, Manhattanites, and the Movies

pp 3-22

2 - Back to the Future, or the Vanguard Meets the Rearguard

pp 23-48

3 - Flags and Letters, Men and War

pp 49-60

4 - Farce, Dreams, and Desire: Some Like It Hot Re-viewed

pp 61-70

Interlude

pp 71-72

5 - Switching Genres, or Playing to the Camera, Playing to the House: Stage vs. Screen Acting

pp 73-86

6 - On the Road Again: The Road Film and the Two Coppolas

pp 87-102

7 - The Coming-of-Age Film à la Fellini: The Case of I vitelloni

pp 103-112

Part II - Classification, Re-classification, and Assessment

pp 113-114

8 - Early vs. Later Bergman: Winter Light and Autumn Sonata Revisited

pp 115-126

9 - “Everyone Has His Reasons”: Words, Images, and La grande illusion in the Cinema of Jean Renoir

pp 127-148

10 - A Passage to Tokyo: The Art of Ozu, Remembered

pp 149-160

11 - Through the Looking Glass: The American Art Cinema in an Age of Social Change

pp 161-172

Bibliography of Related Criticism

pp 173-176

Index

pp 177-185

Plate section