Like a Film

addresses questions of cultural identity, the role of Continental psychoanalysis and philosophy, and the ideological importance of artistic form.

Timothy Murray is Professor of English at Cornell University. A former editor of Theatre Journal, he is the author of Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in Seventeenth-Century England and France.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Pictures of the Living Dead; Chapter 2 Like a Film; Chapter 3 PHOTO-MEDUSA Roland Barthes Incorporated; Part 2 Dirty Stills; Chapter 4 Dirty Stills; Chapter 5 Dirtier Still?; Part 3 Lines of Demand; Chapter 6 What's Happening?; Chapter 7 Allegorizing 'Content'; Chapter 8 On the Line;