The Face on Film

Cover
The Face on Film
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Face Moving Image
	A Dispositif
	An Ur-​Image
	The Face Against the Image
	Itineraries
1. We Had Faces Then
	Expressivity in the 1920s
	Joan of Arc, Inevitably
	The Face and its Voices
	Glamour/​Anti-​Glamour
2. Roland Barthes Looks at the Stars
	Toward “Visages et figures”
		Excursus on the Face in Language
	Into the Movie Theater
	Ultra-​Face
		Excursus on the Mask
	From Cult to Charm: Funny Face
3. Face-​to-​Face (with The Wrong Man)
	What Godard Saw
	What the Clerk Saw
		Excursus on Anthropometrics
	Not a Mirror, Not a Lamp
4. Pass/​Fail: Screen Test, Apparatus, Subject
	The Antonioni Screen Test
		Excursus on a Star Portrait
	Sitting for the Portrait is the Portrait
	Outer and Inner Space, and the Pathos of Time
	Fail Better
5. In Reticence (Bresson)
	The Epidermal and the Written
	The Image Against the Face
	Not an Open Book, but a Door Ajar
Postface: The Two-​Shot
Index of Names and Titles