An illuminating exploration of the relationship between art and cinema, from Hitchcock to Scorsese.

A persuasive approach to an engaging body of films, "Art in the Cinematic Imagination" illuminates a compelling and significant facet of the cinematic experience.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Baring the Device
1. The Moving Picture Gallery
2. A Form of Necrophilia (The Moving Picture Gallery Revisited)
3. The Birth, Death, and Apotheosis of a Hollywood Love Goddess
4. Survivors of the Shipwreck of Modernity
5. Out of Her Element
6. Playing with Fire
7. Dirty Pictures, Mud Lust, and Abject Desire: Myths of Origin and the Cinematic Object
Notes
Bibliography
Index