Table of Contents

Introduction: Fetishisms.Part 1 What price Hollywood? Americanitis - European intellectuals and Hollywood melodrama; social hieroglyphics - reflections on Two films by Douglas Sirk; close-ups and commodities. Part 2 Dialectics of division: Pandora's box - topographies of curiosity; cosmetics and abjection - Cindy Sherman 1977-87; the hole and the zero - Godard's visions of femininity. Part 3 Dollar-book Freud: from Log Cabin to Xanadu - psychoanalysis and history in "Citizen Kane"; The carapace that failed - Osmane Sembene's Xala; Netherworlds and the unconscious - Oedipus and Blue Velvet; changing objects, preserving time.