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ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Prelude: Corn  Thinking about The Wizard of Oz, North by Northwest, Arizona Dream, Field of Dreams, a moment on Unter-den-Linden, Signs, knowing but seeing, Random Harvest 1. Vivid Rivals  Thinking about technical effects and historical emplacement, Defiance, cinema’s multiple realities, Cloverfield, Picture Snatcher, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The Disorderly Orderly, Thelma & Louise, The Talented Mr. Ripley, establishments and transformations of consciousness, Vertigo, The Mummy, Mogambo, locational transforms, The Sicilian, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Incredible Hulk, realities of the screen body, the zombie paradigm, screen“death” and death, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,“reality” and the unseen audience, The Heiress, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, luminosity and attention, cinéma publicitaire,“reality effects” and pleasure, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Knowing, Kings Row, actional and observational“reality,” collapsing artifice, They Might Be Giants 2. The Two of Us  Thinking about the salto mortale, Invitation to the Dance, The Prestige, “The Transported Man,” the screen edit, Jumper, narrative procedure and presence, Green Zone, The Man Who Knew Too Much, process photography, rear projection, Born Yesterday, Lost in La Mancha, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Greatest Show on Earth, North by Northwest, Niagara, Marnie, the critical eye, Annie Hall, cinema and verisimilitude, mattes and traveling mattes, actor doubling, Gaslight, Hangover Square, The Dark Mirror, Bette Davis and A Stolen Life, The Black Room, Wonder Man x Contents 3. Being There  Thinking about Philidor and performance, Psycho, performance and body etiquette, Fahrenheit 451, The Manchurian Candidate, performance, silence, and light, Harry Brown, Gran Torino, performance and selfreference ,“backstage” journalism, performance and worker residue, Secrets & Lies, performance to camera, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Funny Girl, Citizen Kane, Alfie, E la nave va . . . , Touch of Evil, Sunset Blvd., performative substance, Dark Passage, performance and social relationship, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Last Airbender, Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, and Birth, John Wayne, Brandon De Wilde, and In Harm’s Way, performance from outside the actor, The Squid and the Whale, The Bourne Ultimatum 4. A Fairy Tale  Thinking about the doubling experience of cinema, Brigadoon, fabulous perception, Tony Duquette, the Musée Grévin, Public Enemies, I Know Where I’m Going, the travails of artificiality, screen“reality” and subjunctive sight, setting and ambiguous engagement, George Gibson, the patriotism of cinematic vision Notes  Works Cited and Consulted  Index  ...

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