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Table of Contents
Preface by Terry Eagleton
Introduction: Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature
Modernism
A Modernist Manifesto
Cinema and Modernism
Modernism as Realism
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Review of Frank Kermode's Shakespeare's Language
Review of Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World
Review of Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The Biography
Tanner and Shakespeare
Language, Literacy and literature
Television and Literacy
Compacted Doctrines: William Empson and the Meaning of Words (with Alan Durant)
Why are the Arabs not free?
Frank Kermode: The Greatest Literary Critic
In Words We Are Made Flesh: Towards a New Cambridge Philology
Theory
A Defense of Criticism
Barthes and Bazin: The Ontology of the Image
Bataille and Eroticism
The Schreber case: How Queer was Freud?
Film
Godard: The Commerce of Cinema
Film Essays from Criterion:
Polanski: The Truest Tess
Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
The Decameron: The Past is the Present
The Canterbury Tales: Sex and Death
Arabian Nights: Brave Old World
Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis X1V
Sound, Image and Every Man for Himself
Kieslowski's Three Colors
Sudden Death: Asseyas's Carlos
Report from Cannes 2015: Lazlo Nenes's Son of Saul
Derek Jarman: A Lost Leader
Watching Films to Mourn the Death of Empire: Introduction to a website
<strong>Politics and Culture</strong>
An Interview with Stuart Hall
Our Fenian Dead: The Inheritance of Martyrdom (with Jennifer Keating).