Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Logic of an Illusion: Notes on the Genealogy of Intellectual Cinema -- Narcissistic Machines and Erotic Prostheses -- Loïe Fuller and the Art of Motion: Body, Light, Electricity, and the Origins of Cinema -- Visitings of Awful Promise: The Cinema Seen from Etna -- Transfiguring the Urban Gray: László Moholy-Nagy's Film Scenario 'Dynamic of the Metropolis' -- Eisenstein's Philosophy of Film -- Knight's Moves -- Hitchcock and Narrative Suspense: Theory and Practice -- From the Air: A Genealogy of Antonioni's Modernism -- Dr. Strangelove: or: the Apparatus of Nuclear Warfare -- Collection and Recollection: On Film Itineraries and Museum Walks -- Afterward: A Matter of Time: Analog Versus Digital, the Perennial Question of Shifting Technology and Its Implications for an Experimental Filmmaker's Odyssey -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.