Part I: Modernism -- A modernist manifesto -- Cinema and modernism -- Modernism as realism -- Part II: Shakespeare -- Review of Frank Kermode's Shakespeare's language -- Review of Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World -- Review of Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The Biography -- Tanner and Shakespeare -- Part III: Language, literacy and literature -- Television and literacy -- Compacted doctrines: William Empson and the meaning of words (with Alan Durant) -- Why are the Arabs not free?: The politics of writing -- Frank Kermode: The greatest literary critic -- In words we are made flesh: towards a new Cambridge philology -- Part IV: Theory -- A defense of criticism -- Barthes and Bazin: the ontology of the image -- Bataille and eroticism -- The Schreber case: how queer was Freud? -- Part V: Film -- Godard: the commerce of cinema -- Film essays for criterion: -- Polanski: The Truest Tess -- Pasolini's Trilogy of Life -- Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis X1V -- Sound, image, and Every Man for Himself -- Kieslowski's Three Colors -- Sudden death: Asseyas's Carlos -- Derek Jarman: The lost leader -- Watching films to mourn the death of empire: introduction to a website -- Part VI: Politics and culture -- An interview with Stuart Hall -- Our fenian dead: the inheritance of martyrdom (with Jennifer Keating).
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