Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Introduction: The Necessary Film

pp ix-xii

Part I - Children and the Cinema

pp 1-2

1 - Children of a Lesser God: The Children's Film from De Sica to Kore-eda

pp 3-18

2 - Death Wish, Child's Whim, Auteurist Will: Boyer and Clément's Forbidden Games Replayed

pp 19-30

3 - War Games: On Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly

pp 31-36

Part II - Literature and Adaptation

pp 37-38

4 - “Outing” Edward, Outfitting Marlowe: Derek Jarman's Film of Edward II

pp 39-50

5 - Theater and Fiction into Film: Notes on Paradigmatic Scenes and Emblematic Adaptations

pp 51-86

Part III - Views and Interviews

pp 87-88

6 - Married to the Job: Ermanno Olmi's Il posto and I fidanzati Reconsidered

pp 89-98

7 - Reflecting Reality—and Mystery: An Interview with Ermanno Olmi

pp 99-112

8 - Lower Depths, Higher Planes: On the Dardennes' La Promesse, Rosetta, The Son, and L'Enfant

pp 113-138

9 - The Cinema of Resistance: An Interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

pp 139-154

Part IV - World Enough and Time

pp 155-156

10 - The World Is Too Much with Us: Violence on Screen, or Realism, Reality, and the An-esthetic of the Unreal

pp 157-168

11 - Characterizing Space, Configuring Time: Notes, Mostly on Antonioni's L'avventura and La notte

pp 169-188

12 - As Time Goes By: Memory and the Movies

pp 189-210

Bibliography of Related Criticism

pp 211-214

Index

pp 215-222

Plate section