Cinema and Its Discontents

Zachariah Rush is a screenwriter, film critic and regular contributor to Film International magazine. He has written essays for eight volumes of the Directory of World Cinema, and has contributed scenic analyses to five volumes of World Film Locations. He lives in Manchester, England.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part One: The Dialectic

1.1 deleteAn Abbreviated History of Dialectic

1.2 deleteDialectic in principio

1.3 deleteSpeculative Dialectic

1.4 deletePlatonic Dialectic

1.5 deleteEarly Christian Dialectic

1.6 deleteGnostic Dialectic

1.7 deletePatristic Dialectic

1.8 deleteAugustinian Dialectic

1.9 deleteCartesian Dialectic

1.10 deletePascalian Dialectic

1.11 deleteKantian Dialectic

1.12 deleteHegelian Dialectic

1.13 deleteMarxian/Engelian Dialectic

1.14 deleteNietzschean Dialectic

1.15 deleteFreudian Dialectic

1.16 deleteTwentieth Century Dialectic

Part Two: Of Character

2.1 Introduction to Character: The Dialectic of Ethos

2.2 Gypsies, Tramps; Tramps and Thieves

2.3 Aristos, Scholars and Swans

2.4 Freaks, Tycoons and Contenders

2.5 Vaudevilleans, Hollywoodians and Magicians

2.6 April Lovers, Chanteuses and Writers

2.7 Ascetics, Asses and Alters

2.8 Politicos, Cabbies and Jedis

2.9 Arias and Angels

2.10 Edward and Max

2.11 Lions, Lightyears and Llamas

2.12 Male Models, Machinists and Matrimony

Conclusion: Towards a Cinema of Agony

Filmography

Chapter Notes

Bibliography delete

Index delete