Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224), filmography (pages 215-216), and index.
Prelude. The passion of film -- What we talk about when we talk about film -- The body of work -- Origins -- The films they made -- The work of the body. Hunger artists -- Apollo, Dionysus, and Nemesis -- Embodiment and performance -- Form, time, and space. Spatial illusions -- Conventional spaces -- Against realism -- Touch of evil and Psycho -- Labyrinths, lost time, dying falls -- Hitchcock and the abyss -- The dreamworld. The spaces of space fiction -- Cycles and symmetry -- Photograph of a photograph -- Power and sexuality -- The art of feeling -- Coda : an immense shadow -- Chronology of films by Welles, Hitchcock, and Kubrick