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vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Screen Author—Wanted: Dead or Alive 1 1 Typecasting the Author 20 2 Beyond Adaptation: The Writer as Filmmaker 37 3 The Author at the Dream Factory: The Screenwriter and the Movies 60 4 The Authoress: Textuality as Sexuality 88 5 Writing Pain: The Infirm Author 114 6 Cinécriture: Word and Image 142 7 Corpus and Oeuvre: Authorship and the Body 165 8 Stealing Beauty: The Reader, the Critic, and the Appropriation of the Authorial Voice 190 Afterword: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema 214 Notes 227 Filmography 243 Bibliography 247 Index 257 ...

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