Editor's preface
Introduction
A degraded spectacle. The interpreter and the sensualist
Roman hair
A Cold War cinema
Demystification, 1957 "The face of Garbo"
Rrefresh the perception of the world. "On cinemascope"; Barthes and the New Wave
Barthes and Bazin. Lost continent; From ontology to rhetoric and back; Camera Lucida
Another revolution. The fetishist; Eisenstein, 1970; Coda: From leftocracy to affect and intimacy
Leaving the movie theater. The science of filmology; Apparatus theory; The aestheticization of the World; A long conversation with Christian Metz; Leaving theory
The melodramatic imagination. The Brontë sisters; The New Wave's melodramatic turn
Michel Foucault's melodramatic imagination; Barthes and Foucault
Barthes and Truffaut: Melodramatic photography; Conclusion: From Barthes to Rancière
Interview with Jacques Rancière
Nine texts on the cinema by Roland Barthes: Angels of sin (Les anges du péché, 1943)
On CinemaScope
Versailles and its accounts
Cinema, right and left
On left wing criticism
Traumatic units in cinema: research principles
Preface to Les inconnus de la terre (Strangers of the Earth, Mario Ruspoli, 1961)
Answer to a Question about James Bond
Sade
Pasolini
Notes
Bibliography
Index.