Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
INTRODUCTION 
PART I· BASIC CONCEPTS 
Chapter 1. Cinema and the Theory of Intertextuality 
PART II· NARRATIVE'S WAY: D. W. GRIFFITH 
Chapter 2. Repressing the Source: D. W. Griffith and Browning 
Chapter 3· Intertextuality and the Evolution of Cinematic Language:Griffith and the Poetic Tradition 
PART III· BEYOND NARRATIVE: AVANT-GARDE CINEMA 
Chapter 4· Cinematic Language as Quotation: Cendrars and Leger 
Chapter 5· Intertext against Intertext: Bunuel and Dali's Un Chien andalou 
PART IV· THEORISTS WHO PRACTICED 
Chapter 6. The Hero as an "Intertextual Body": Iurii Tynianov's Lieutenant Kizhe 
Chapter 7· The Invisible Text as a Universal Equivalent:Sergei Eisenstein 
CONCLUSION 
NOTES 
WORKS CITED 
INDEX 

About the Author

Mikhail Iampolski teaches in the departments of Slavic and Comparative Literature and Russian Studies at New York University.