Todd McGowan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment and The Feminine "No!": Psychoanalysis and the New Canon, both also published by SUNY Press.

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: From the Imaginary Look to the Real Gaze

Part 1. The Cinema of Fantasy: Exposing the Excess                    

1. Fantasy and Showing Too Much

2. Theoretical Fantasizing 

3. The Politics of Cinematic Fantasy

4. Early Explorations of Fantasy

5. The Coldness of Kubrick

6. Spike Lee's Fantasmatic Explosions

7. Michael Mann and the Ethics of Excess

8. The Bankruptcy of Fantasy in Fellini

Part 2. The Cinema of Desire: Absence amid the Plenitude of the Image                                                         

9. Desire and Not Showing Enough

10. Theoretical Desiring

11. The Politics of Cinematic Desire

12. The Impossible Object of the Nouvelle Vague

13. The Banality of Orson Welles

14. Claire Denis and the Other's Failure to Enjoy

15. Political Desire in Italian Neorealism

Part 3. The Cinema of Integration: The Marriage of Desire and Fantasy                                                              

16. The Intermixing of Desire and Fantasy

17. The Theoretical Opposition

18. The Politics of the Cinema of Integration

19. The Ordinary Cinema of Ron Howard 

20. Steven Spielberg's Search for the Father 

21. D. W. Griffith's Suspense 

22. Films That Separate

23. The Separation of Desire and Fantasy

24. Theorizing the Real

25. The Politics of the Cinema of Intersection

26. The Overlapping Worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky

27. Alain Resnais between the Present and the Past

28. Wim Wenders and the Ethics of Fantasizing

29. The Sexual Relationship with David Lynch

Notes
Index