Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Brutal Beginnings: Imagining Murder/Watching Murder -- 2 Moving Sculpture for Moving Eyes -- 3 Inside and Outside Somebody Else's Fantasy -- 4 Make Believe is Always a Story -- 5 Single-Handed and Collective Make Believe -- 6 Movies and Hyper-Visual Culture -- 7 La Strada and the Conjecturing Imagination -- 8 Madame Bovary: Linguistic Figurings of Imaginative Corruption -- 9 Rashomon and Wuthering Heights -- 10 Form in Visual Storytelling: Buster Keaton's The General -- 11 Genre and the Transforming of Sources: High Noon -- 12 Great Expectations: Insights from the Impossibility of Adaptation -- 13 Magnifying Criminality: Fargo, Film Noir, and A Perfect World -- 14 Innovative Lawfulness: Learning to Read -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.