Haunting the World

Dominic Lash is the author of several books, including The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions and Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism, and the coeditor, with Hoi Lun Law, of Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism: Philosophy, Theory, and the Individual Film.

"A vital, generous, and illuminating contribution not only to writing about Perkins and Cavell but to the further flourishing of accessible writing about film and its achievements. Dominic Lash has written a series of essays that offer each in its own marvelous way a fresh path for thinking about and experiencing cinema and the work of two of its most accomplished and important scholars." — Jason Jacobs, University of Queensland

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Naive Film CriticismPart One. V. F. Perkins1. Film as Film in the Twenty-First Century2. V. F. Perkins and the Redescription of FilmsPart Two. Stanley Cavell3. "Not Yet the Last": On a Paragraph by Stanley Cavell4. Cavellian Reflections on Privacy, Consent, and Expression in Ildiko Enyedi's On Body and Soul (Teströl és lélekröl)5. (Re)producing Marriage: Stanley Cavell and Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread6. Experience, Skepticism, and Idolatry in Stanley Kubrick, Nicholas Lash, and Stanley CavellPart Three. Figurations7. The Shape of It All: Priorities and Completeness in Nicole Brenez's Work on Abel Ferrara8. Rupture, Suture, Nietzsche: Impossible Intersubjectivity in Ridley Scott's Alien9. Hypnosis-Images: Indiscernibility and Hypnotic Agency in Gilles Deleuze's Heart of GlassPart Four. Tarkovsky and Reichardt10. "You Can't Imagine How Terrible It Is to Make the Wrong Choice": Faith, Agency, and Self-pity in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker11. Kelly and Andrei in the Zone12. "A Fair Curve from a Noble Plan": Kelly Reichardt's Certain WomenNotesWorks CitedFilmographyIndex