Perpetual Carnival

Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh. His previous books include Tracking the Signifier (University of Minnesota Press, 1985), Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 (FSG-Faber & Faber, 2004), and True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity (OUP, 2011).

Table of Contents

Preface by Terry Eagleton

Introduction: Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature

Modernism
A Modernist Manifesto
Cinema and Modernism
Modernism as Realism

Shakespeare

Review of Frank Kermode's Shakespeare's Language
Review of Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World
Review of Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The Biography
Tanner and Shakespeare

Language, Literacy and literature

Television and Literacy
Compacted Doctrines: William Empson and the Meaning of Words (with Alan Durant)
Why are the Arabs not free?
Frank Kermode: The Greatest Literary Critic
In Words We Are Made Flesh: Towards a New Cambridge Philology

Theory

A Defense of Criticism
Barthes and Bazin: The Ontology of the Image
Bataille and Eroticism
The Schreber case: How Queer was Freud?

Film

Godard: The Commerce of Cinema
Film Essays from Criterion:
Polanski: The Truest Tess
Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
The Decameron: The Past is the Present
The Canterbury Tales: Sex and Death
Arabian Nights: Brave Old World
Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis X1V
Sound, Image and Every Man for Himself
Kieslowski's Three Colors
Sudden Death: Asseyas's Carlos
Report from Cannes 2015: Lazlo Nenes's Son of Saul
Derek Jarman: A Lost Leader
Watching Films to Mourn the Death of Empire: Introduction to a website

Politics and Culture

An Interview with Stuart Hall
Our Fenian Dead: The Inheritance of Martyrdom (with Jennifer Keating)