Cinema

Acknowledgments viii     Foreword ix     1 \"Cinema Has Given Me So Much\" 1     2 Cinematic Culture 21     3 Revisionist Cinema 34     4 Art and its Criticism 40     5 The Suicide of Grace: Le Diable probablement 48     6 A Man Who Never Gives In 50     7 Is the Orient an Object for the Western Conscience? 54     8 Reference Points for Cinema\'s Second Modernity 58     9 The Demy Affair 64     10 Switzerland: Cinema as Interpretation 67     11 Interrupted Notes on the French Comedy Film 72     12 Y a tellement de pays pour aller 77     13 Restoring Meaning to Death and Chance 82     14 A Private Industry, Cinema is also a Private Spectacle 86     15 The False Movements of Cinema 88     16 Can a Film Be Spoken About? 94     17 Notes on The Last Laugh 100     18 \"Thinking the Emergence of the Event\" 105     19 The Divine Comedy and The Convent 129     20 Surplus Seeing: Histoire(s) du cinema 132     21 Considerations on the Current State of Cinema 138     22 The Cinematic Capture of the Sexes 151     23 An Unqualified Affirmation of Cinema\'s Enduring Power 162     24 Passion, Jean-Luc Godard 166     25 \"Say Yes to Love, or Else be Lonely\": Magnolia 176     26 Dialectics of the Fable: The Matrix 193     27 Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation 202     28 On Cinema as a Democratic Emblem 233     29 The End of a Beginning: Tout va bien 242     30 The Dimensions of Art: Forgiveness 252     31 The Perfection of the World, Improbable yet Possible 258     Notes 261