Jane Gaines is Associate Professor of English and Literature and Director of the Film and Video Program at Duke University. She is the author of Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law.

• Introduction: The Family Melodrama of Classical Narrative Cinema/ Jane M. Gaines 1Dickens, Griffith, and Film Theory Today/ Rick Altman 9Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory/ Bill Nichols 49Film Response from Eye to I: The Kuleshov Experiement/ Norman N. Holland 79Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real: The Return of Martin Guerre/ Janet Staiger 107Between Melodrama and Realism: Anthony Asquith's Underground and King Vidor's The Crowd/ Christine Gledhill 129The Hieroglyph and the Whore: D.W. Griffith's Intolerance/ Miriam Hansen 169The She-Man: Postmodern Bi-Sexed Performance in Film and Video/ Chris Straayer 203Dead Ringer: Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike/ Jane Gaines 227Nostalgia for the Present/ Fredric Jameson 253Reading Dynasty: Television and Reception Theory/ Jane Feuer 275Dialogues of the Living Dead/ John O. Thompson 295Image/ Machine/ Image: On the Use and Abuse of Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory/ Richard Dienst 313Notes on Contributors 341Index 345

Jane Gaines is Associate Professor of English and Literature and Director of the Film and Video Program at Duke University. She is the author of Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law.

• Introduction: The Family Melodrama of Classical Narrative Cinema/ Jane M. Gaines 1Dickens, Griffith, and Film Theory Today/ Rick Altman 9Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory/ Bill Nichols 49Film Response from Eye to I: The Kuleshov Experiement/ Norman N. Holland 79Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real: The Return of Martin Guerre/ Janet Staiger 107Between Melodrama and Realism: Anthony Asquith's Underground and King Vidor's The Crowd/ Christine Gledhill 129The Hieroglyph and the Whore: D.W. Griffith's Intolerance/ Miriam Hansen 169The She-Man: Postmodern Bi-Sexed Performance in Film and Video/ Chris Straayer 203Dead Ringer: Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike/ Jane Gaines 227Nostalgia for the Present/ Fredric Jameson 253Reading Dynasty: Television and Reception Theory/ Jane Feuer 275Dialogues of the Living Dead/ John O. Thompson 295Image/ Machine/ Image: On the Use and Abuse of Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory/ Richard Dienst 313Notes on Contributors 341Index 345