Interpretation and Film Studies: Movie Made Meanings

Part I: The Difference a Reading Makes: Interpretation as the Absent Center of Film Studies.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary and Film Studies.Chapter 2: Getting beyond the Obvious: Griffith's Way Down East.Chapter 3: Seeing the Picture and Not Just the Frame: Nelly as Subject in Carné's Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows).Chapter 4: Making the Future "Different": The Politics of Nichols's The Graduate.Chapter 5:  Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems: Seeing (with) Giuliana in Antonioni's Il deserto rosso (Red Desert).Chapter 6 Summary: The Work of Film Studies:  An Analysis of Four Journals.Chapter 7:  In Defense of Reading Films.- Part II:  Watching the Detective: Readings of Three Films.Chapter 8: Vision and Revision in Hitchcock's Vertigo.Chapter 9: The Chinatown Syndrome.Chapter 10: Making Meaning in and of Chrstopher Nolan's Memento.