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Tables of Contents for Images of Idiocy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
Illustrations
ix
Introduction: Idiocy and Cultural Representation
1
26
Part I Idiocy in the Nineteenth Century
27
66
1 Romantic and Victorian Idiots
29
24
2 Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert and Jean Renoir)
53
20
3 The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky and Akira Kurosawa)
73
20
Part II Idiocy and Modernism
93
62
4 The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad and Alfred Hitchcock)
95
20
5 Kaspar Hauser (Jakob Wassermann and Werner Herzog)
115
20
6 Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck and Lewis Milestone)
135
20
Part III Idiocy After World War II
155
60
7 Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor and John Huston)
157
20
8 Waterland (Graham Swift and Stephen Gyllenhagi)
177
18
9 Such a Long Journey (Rohinton Mistry and Sturla Gunnarsson)
195
20
Conclusion: Idiocy in Contemporary Film
215
20
Filmography
235
2
Bibliography
237
20
Index
257