Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Foreword ix
1 "Cinema Has Given Me So Much" 1
2 Cinematic Culture 21
3 Revisionist Cinema 34
4 Art and its Criticism 40
5 The Suicide of Grace: Le Diable probablement 48
6 A Man Who Never Gives In 50
7 Is the Orient an Object for the Western Conscience? 54
8 Reference Points for Cinema's Second Modernity 58
9 The Demy Affair 64
10 Switzerland: Cinema as Interpretation 67
11 Interrupted Notes on the French Comedy Film 72
12 Y a tellement de pays pour aller 77
13 Restoring Meaning to Death and Chance 82
14 A Private Industry, Cinema is also a Private Spectacle 86
15 The False Movements of Cinema 88
16 Can a Film Be Spoken About? 94
17 Notes on The Last Laugh 100
18 "Thinking the Emergence of the Event" 105
19 The Divine Comedy and The Convent 129
20 Surplus Seeing: Histoire(s) du cinéma 132
21 Considerations on the Current State of Cinema 138
22 The Cinematic Capture of the Sexes 151
23 An Unqualified Affirmation of Cinema's Enduring Power 162
24 Passion, Jean-Luc Godard 166
25 "Say Yes to Love, or Else be Lonely": Magnolia 176
26 Dialectics of the Fable: The Matrix 193
27 Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation 202
28 On Cinema as a Democratic Emblem 233
29 The End of a Beginning: Tout va bien 242
30 The Dimensions of Art: Forgiveness 252
31 The Perfection of the World, Improbable yet Possible 258
Notes 261
