1 The Movies, Too, Will Make
You Free
20 Making Sense of the Movies
40 "Damn Your A Priori Principles--Look!"
W. R. Robinson Discusses The Movies
As Narrative Art,
Interview
With John Graham
47 The Movies As a Revolutionary Moral Force,
Part I
60 The Movies As a Revolutionary Moral Force,
Part II
77 2001 And the Literary Sensibility
(With Mary McDermott)
92 Stripping the Eye: Some Observations
on the Movies as Strip Tease
114 If You Don't See, You're Dead: The Immediate Encounter
with the Image
In Hiroshima Mon
Amour And Juliet Of The Spirits, Part I (Hiroshima Mon Amour)
135 If You Don't See, You're Dead, Part II (Juliet Of
The Spirits)
153 Fellini Satyricon's Moral Process
161 The Birth of Imaginative Man in Part III of 2001:
A Space Odyssey
William R. Robinson is Professor Emeritus of English and Film Studies from the University of Florida. Books by the University Press (UP) at LSU and Western Reserve U., also by Penguin and Viking.
II. 26 ESSAYS ON MOVIES, VISIONS AND VALUES,
PRESENTED IN THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM R. ROBINSON, BY HIS FRIENDS
191 Total Eclipse, by Annie Dillard (Professor
at Wesleyan University. Books by Wesleyan and Missouri UP,
Harper Collins,
Knopf, and G.K. Hall. A past winner of the Pulitzer Prize.)
203 Fellini: Changing the Subject, by Frank
Burke ( Film Professor at Queen's University,
Canada. Books
Twayne (2) and Prentice Hall International.)
225 Federico Fellini: Bifocal Views, by R.
H. W. Dillard (Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at Hollins
College.
Books by UP of LSU, UNC, Utah, Georgia, South Carolina, also by
Doubleday and MacMillan.)
245 Two Movie Poems, by George Garrett (Professor
Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at University
of Virginia.
Books by UP of Virginia, South Carolina, LSU, Georgia, UNC, SMU, Wesleyan,
Missouri,
Arkansas, Texas,
also by Harcourt, Doubleday and Scribner)
248 A New Geography of Paradise: George Stevens's
Shane as Trans-Edenic Vision, by Armando José
Prats (Professor
of Film at University of Kentucky. Book by U Kentucky Press.)
281 After Words: The Western Movies of John Ford
and Sam Peckinpah, by A. Carl Bredahl, Jr. (Professor
of English at
University of Florida. Books by UP of Florida and UNC.)
303 Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Emersonian
Vision, by Steve Snyder (Professor of English and Film
Studies at University
of Manitoba. Book by U. of Toronto Press).
319 William R. Robinson's Philosophy of Image-Freedom
and Robert Altman's The Player and Short Cuts,
by Richard P.
Sugg (Professor of English, Film, and Humanities at Florida International
University.
Books by UP
of Northwestern and Alabama, and also by Houghton Mifflin and Twayne.)
331 Personal Retrospective on Theory: Changing
Paradigms from the 1960s through the 1990s, by
Vincent B. Leitch
(Sutton Chair in English at the University of Oklahoma. Books by UP at
Columbia (3) and SUNY,
also by Norton.)
346 "Like Light": The Movie Theory of W. R. Robinson,
by David Lavery (Professor and Chair of English at
Middle Tennessee
State University. Books by UP of Syracuse, Wayne State, and Southern Illinois.)
364 Preparing to See "The Birth of Imaginative
Man...," by Elaine Marshall (Professor of English at Barton College.)
371 Rounding Up The Usual Suspects: The Comforts
of Character and Neo-Noir, by J. P. Tellote (Professor
of Literature,
Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. Books by
UP of Illinois (3),
Texas, and New
England.)
384 Meriwether Lewis In Imagination's Hell: The
Journals and Robinsonian Aesthetics, by Walter C. Foreman,
Jr. (Professor
of English at University of Kentucky. Book by U Kentucky Press.)
397 Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa As Evolutionary
Narrative: Helix and Scimitar,
by Susan Lynn
Drake and A. Carl Bredahl, Jr., with the Assistance of William R. Robinson
Susan Lynn Drake,
Ph. D., U. Florida. Book by Mellen Press.)
419 An Expedition to the Pole, by Annie Dillard
(See Professor Dillard's info above)
442 Contributors' Biographies
455 Index