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Tables of Contents for Surfing the Zeitgeist
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
2
Preface
ix
On names
1
3
On film history
4
3
On aboriginality
7
3
On postmodernism
10
3
On beginnings and endings
13
3
On melody
16
3
On the circus
19
3
On snow
22
3
On The Triumph of the Will
25
3
On outtakes
28
3
On American presidents
31
3
On actemes
34
3
On emotion
37
3
On special effects
40
3
On the theatre
43
3
On fame
46
3
On nostalgia
49
3
On sweets
52
3
On silence
55
3
On boredom
58
3
On decadence
61
3
On film noir
64
3
On craftsmanship
67
3
On Freud
70
3
On transtextuality
73
3
On journalism
76
3
On word-of-mouth
79
3
On a theory of television
82
3
On Aids
85
3
On titles
88
4
On event freaks
92
3
On style
95
3
On conceptual art
98
3
On art movies
101
3
On critics
104
3
On pop music
107
3
On Mae West
110
3
On ordinariness
113
3
On set-pieces
116
3
On stereotypes
119
3
On actors
122
3
On avant-gardism
125
4
On Tintin
129
3
On cliches
132
3
On video
135
3
On portraiture
138
3
On running times
141
3
On the Imp of the Integral
144
3
On poetry
147
3
On rape
150
3
On the future
153
3
On the critical faculty
156
3
On `liveness'
159
4
On naked children
163
3
On domestic art
166
3
On opera
169
3
On controversy
172
3
On soup
175
3
On Ellis Island
178
3
On intervals
181
3
On personality
184
3
On Wallace and Gromit
187
3
On Generation W
190
3
On newspaper cartoons
193
3
On pedantry
196
3
On posterity
199
3
On genius
202
3
On Hollywood
205
3
On cultural nationalism
208
3
On light music
211
3
On Americana
214
3
On a cultural revolution
217
3
On technology
220
3
On the Titanic
223
3
On the Death of the Author
226
3
On interpretation
229
3
On updating
232
3
On `quotation marks'
235
3
On the Queen
238
3
On the death of a poet
241
3
Index
244