I Lost IT at The Movies - Contents

Contents

The book is divided into an introduction, and four sections. These sections are entitled as such: I) Broadsides; II) Retrospective Reviews: Movies Remembered with Pleasure; III) Broadcasts and Reviews, 1961–1963; and IV) Polemics.

The introduction is entitled "Zeitgeist and Poltergeist; Or, Are Movies Going to Pieces?"

The contents of Section One (Broadsides):

  • Fantasies of the Art-House Audience
  • The Glamour of Delinquency
  • Commitment and the Straitjacket
  • Hud, Deep in the Divided Heart of Hollywood

Movies reviewed in Section Two (Retrospective Reviews):

  • The Earrings of Madame de...
  • The Golden Coach
  • Smiles of a Summer Night
  • La Grande Illusion
  • Forbidden Games
  • Shoeshine
  • The Beggar's Opera
  • Seven Samurai

Movies reviewed and titles of articles in Section Three (Broadcasts and Reviews):

  • Breathless, and the Daisy Miller Doll
  • The Cousins
  • Canned Americana
  • West Side Story
  • L'avventura
  • One, Two, Three
  • The Mark
  • Kagi
  • The Innocents
  • A View from the Bridge, and a Note on The Children's Hour
  • The Day the Earth Caught Fire
  • The Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties: La notte, Last Year at Marienbad, La Dolce Vita
  • A Taste of Honey
  • Victim
  • Lolita
  • Shoot the Piano Player
  • Jules and Jim
  • Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
  • Fires On The Plain
  • Replying to Listeners
  • Billy Budd
  • Yojimbo
  • Devi
  • How the Long Distance Runner Throws the Race
  • 8½: Confessions of a Movie Director

Contents of Section Four (Polemics):

  • Is There a Cure for Film Criticism? Or, Some Unhappy Thoughts on Siegfried Kracauer's Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality
  • Circles and Squares
  • Morality Plays Right and Left

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