The Structure of Complex Images (Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television)

Part I: Film Studies and Its Problems.
1. Movie vs. Screen: The Great Divide in Film Studies.2. The Automatic Auteur, or, A Certain Tendency in Film Criticism.
Part II: Cinephilia, Cavell, and Description-as-Method.
3. Cinephilia and Method.4. Cavell, Thoreau, and the Movies.
Part III: Movie Star Performance.
5. The Mystery of Movie Stardom.6. Vertigo: Why Doesn't Scottie Recognize "Madeleine"?.7. Notes on Fred Astaire.- Part IV: Memory Theaters.8. Memory Theaters: Casablanca and Breathless.
Part V: The Structure of Complex Images.
9. The Cukor "Problem" David Copperfield, Holiday, and The Philadelphia Story.10. The Structure of Complex Images: Abbas Kiarostami's Tickets.