Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Brutal Beginnings: Imagining Murder/Watching Murder......Page 12
2 Moving Sculpture for Moving Eyes......Page 20
3 Inside and Outside Somebody Else’s Fantasy......Page 38
4 Make Believe is Always a Story......Page 56
5 Single-Handed and Collective Make Believe......Page 66
6 Movies and Hyper-Visual Culture......Page 80
7 La Strada and the Conjecturing Imagination......Page 92
8 Madame Bovary: Linguistic Figurings of Imaginative Corruption......Page 104
9 Rashomon and Wuthering Heights......Page 118
10 Form in Visual Storytelling: Buster Keaton’s The General......Page 136
11 Genre and the Transforming of Sources: High Noon......Page 152
12 Great Expectations: Insights from the Impossibility of Adaptation......Page 174
13 Magnifying Criminality: Fargo, Film Noir, and A Perfect World......Page 190
14 Innovative Lawfulness: Learning to Read......Page 206
Select Bibliography......Page 224
C......Page 232
G......Page 233
I......Page 234
M......Page 235
P......Page 236
S......Page 237
W......Page 238
Z......Page 239