Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cinema and Books -- 1 Superiority of Literature? -- 2 Cinema and Dreams -- 3 Photography, Painting, Cinema, and Realism -- 4 Influence of Literature on Cinema -- 5 Some Misunderstandings -- 6 Film Shows, Literature Says -- 7 The Question of Adaptations -- 8 Cinema and Theater -- 9 The Director as Author -- 10 Filmmakers Haunted by Literature -- 11 Cinema and Technology -- 12 Different Ways of Looking at and Making Films -- 13 Film Language? -- 14 What Is Mise-en-Scene? -- 15 Pace and Rhythm -- 16 Light as a Character -- 17 Settings and Details -- 18 Changes in Filmmaking in the '60s and '70s -- 19 Changes in Filmmaking in the '80s and '90s -- 20 Cinema and Television -- 21 Cyber Cinema? -- 22 Are There Books in Our Future? -- 23 Cyber Narration: Shaharazad and Proust as Computer Programmers -- 24 The Meaning of It All -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.