Laura Mulvey, Director of MA in Cinema and Television Studies, British Film Institute/Birkbeck College, London, is the author of Visual and Other Pleasures and the BFI Film Classic Citizen Kane.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction Fetishisms
Part One: What Price Hollywood?
Chapter 1: Americanitis: European Intellectuals and Hollywood Melodrama
Chapter 2: Social Hieroglyphics: Reflections on Two Films by Douglas Sirk
Chapter 3: Close-ups and Commodities
Part Two Dialectics of Division
Chapter 4: Pandora's Box: Topographies of Curiosity
Chapter 5: Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman 1977-87
Chapter 6: The Hole and the Zero: Godard's Visions of Femininity
Part Three Dollar-Book Freud
Chapter 7: From Log Cabin to Xanadu: Psychoanalysis and History in CITIZEN KANE
Chapter 8: The Carapace that Failed: Ousmane Sembene's XALA
Chapter 9: Netherworlds and the Unconscious: Oedipus and BLUE VELVET
Postscript: Changing Objects, Preserving Time
Notes