Table of Contents

I. Introductory 1. Introduction 2. Facisim/Cinema II. Marriage and the Couple 3. The Couple and the Other 4. Renoir and Mozart 5. Resistance to Definition: Ozu's "Noriko" Trilogy III. The Family 6. Leo McCarey and "Family Values" 7. Family Loyalties IV. Romantic Love 8. The Two Gaslights 9. Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Double Narrative V. Women-Oppression and Transgression 10. Three Films of Mizoguchi: Questions of Style and Identification 11. Persona Revisited VI. Race and Gender 12. Mandingo: The Vindication of an Abused Masterpiece VII. Toward Liberation 13. Narrative Pleasure: Two Films by Jacques Rivette 14. Drawing Earl: The Lesson of Life Classes 15. Rethinking Romantic Love: Before Sunrise 16. Finale: The Doom Generation

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Wood explores the relationships between narrative form and style and sexual politics, probing the political and sexual ramifications of fascism and cinema, marriage and the couple, romantic love, and representations of women, race and gender in films from the United States, Europe, and Japan.

About the Author

Robin Wood, recently retired as professor of film studies at Atkinson College, York University, Canada, is the author of Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and Hitchcock's Films Revisited (both Columbia).

Reviews

Wood has a rare and welcome grasp of the difficulties of fashioning a film narrative that both satisfies a mass audience and remains critical of its own achievement. -- K. Tololyan, Wesleyan University Choice