On the figure in general and the body in particular figurative invention in cinema - Brenez, Nicole 1961- (Anthem Press, 2024)
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Introduction; Part 1: Figurative Economies,  1. Why Must the Dead Be Killed?:Observations on John Woo,  2. Capitalism: Jack Smith, 3. "Unusual Approach to Bodies": Robert Bresson with Jean Eustache, Philippe Garrel, and Monte Hellman,   4. Sketch/Skip/Excessive Synthesis: Jacques Tourneur's Cat People, Dario Argento's Suspiria, John McTiernan's Predator; Part 2: Adventures of the Classical Body in Modern Cinema,  1. S.M. Eisenstein, Bella Figura, and Formal Deflagration,  2. Anti-Bodies: Instances of the Classical Body in the Work of Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Gus Van Sant,  3. Short-Circuit: Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate; Part 3: New Abstractions in Figurative Invention,  1. The Contemporary Character,  2. The Being According to the Image: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane,  3. "'Cause it sounds more French": On a Secondary Character in Maurice Pialat's Police,  4
Thefts: Robert Bresson's Pickpocket; Part 4: Appearances - Figures of the Actor,  1. The Actor as Affective Citizen: Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore,  2. Lassie, Unfaithful to Dogs: Fred M. Wilcox's Lassie Come Home,  3. "Die for Mr. Jensen": John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence,  4. John Woo by John Woo: The Take and the Shot; Part 5: Image Circuits,  1. Travolta Himself: Dance and the Circulation of Images - Fantasy, Phantasm, and Phantasmata,  2. Thirst: Barbara Loden's Wanda,  3. The Visual Study: The Forces of a Cinematic Form - Al Razutis, Ken Jacobs, Brian De Palma,  4. The First Shot: Philippe Garrel's Liberté, la nuit,  5. Anti-Oedipus: John Woo's Heroes Shed No Tears; Part 6: Theoretical Invention,  1. "As You Are": Representation and Figuration - Questions of Terminology in the Work of Barthes, Eisenstein, Benjamin, and Epstein,  2. The Physics of Cinema: Introduction to the Literary and Filmic Oeuvre of Paul Sharits,  3
In the Meantime: Kirk Tougas' The Politics of Perception,  4. Epilogue: The Accident