A Preface to Disputation / Dudley Andrew -- I. What Did Walter Benjamin See? Image Cultures, 1890-1933. Introduction / Dudley Andrew. Beauty's Veils: The Ambivalent Iconoclasm of Kierkegaard and Benjamin / John Durham Peters. Jules, Jim, and Walter Benjamin / Dudley Andrew. Women on the Screens and Streets of Modernity: In Search of the Female Flaneur / Anke Gleber. The Fair View: Female Spectators and the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition / Lauren Rabinovitz. Faces of Weimar Germany / Sabine Hake -- II. Traditional Arts and the Shock of This Century's Image. Introduction / Dudley Andrew. The Cubist Image and the Image of Cubism / Jennifer Pap. Pop Art/Pop Culture: Neo-Dada and the Politics of Plenty / Estera Milman. (Re)Imaging the Grotesque: Francis Bacon's Crucifixion Triptychs / Robert Newman -- III. Vision and Interpretation after Photography. Introduction / Dudley Andrew. The Variable Eye, or the Mobilization of the Gaze / Jacques Aumont. The End of Cinema? An Afterword to Jacques Aumont's "The Variable Eye" / Charles O'Brien. From the Captured Moment to the Cinematic Image: A Transformation in Pictorial Order / James Lastra. Snapshots: The Beginnings of Photography / Robert B. Ray. Immediate History: Videotape Interventions and Narrative Film / Timothy Corrigan