"The individual analyses of films by Kubrick, Holland, Bergman, and Spike Lee, and of the melodramatic tradition from Casablanca (1942) to Ghost (1990), are insightful in their theoretical applications." -- Choice
Introduction; Part 1 General Perspectives; Chapter 1 The Thought of Movies, Stanley Cavell; Chapter 2 Provocations and Justifications of Film, Karen Hanson; Chapter 3 Morals for Method, George M. Wilson; Chapter 4 Towards an Ontology of the Moving Image, Noël Carroll; Part 2 Genres and Tropes; Chapter 5 Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters, Naomi Scheman; Chapter 6 Failures of Marriage in Sea of Love (The Love of Men, the Respect of Women), Nickolas Pappas; Chapter 7 Realist Horror, Cynthia A. Freeland; Chapter 8 Black Cupids, White Desires, Robert Gooding-Williams; Chapter 9 An Unlikely Couple, Thomas E. Wartenberg; Part 3 Specific Interpretations; Chapter 10 2001, Harvey Cormier; Chapter 11 Spike Lee’s Morality Tales, Douglas Kellner; Chapter 12 Passing in Europa, Europa, Julie Inness; Chapter 13 The Politics of Interpretation, Kelly Oliver;
