Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by James Naremore
1. Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory: Path Dependence, or How a Tradition in Film Theory Gets Lost
2. The Bordwell Regime and the Stakes of Knowledge
3. Snapshots: The Beginnings of Photography
4. Tracking
5. How to Start and Avant-Garde
6. How to Teach Cultural Studies
7. The Best Way to Understand Postmodernism
8. The Mystery of Edward Hopper
9. Film and Literature
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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About the Author

Robert B. Ray, Director of Film and Media Studies and Professor of English at the University of Florida, is author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema 1930-1980 and The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy. He is also a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, whose records include You and Your Sister, Please Panic, and Opposite Sex.