The Real Gaze -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From the Imaginary Look to the Real Gaze -- Part 1. The Cinema of Fantasy: Exposing the Excess -- 1. Fantasy and Showing Too Much -- 2. Theoretical Fantasizing -- 3.The Politics of Cinematic Fantasy -- 4. Early Explorations of Fantasy -- 5. The Coldness of Kubrick -- 6. Spike Lee's Fantasmatic Explosions -- 7. Michael Mann and the Ethics of Excess -- 8. The Bankruptcy of Fantasy in Fellini -- Part 2. The Cinema of Desire: Absence amid the Plenitude of the Image -- 9. Desire and Not Showing Enough -- 10.Theoretical Desiring -- 11.The Politics of Cinematic Desire -- 12.The Impossible Object of the Nouvelle Vague -- 13.The Banality of Orson Welles -- 14.Claire Denis and the Other's Failure to Enjoy -- 15.Political Desire in Italian Neorealism -- Part 3. The Cinema of Integration: The Marriage of Desire and Fantasy -- 16. The Intermixing of Desire and Fantasy -- 17. The Theoretical Opposition -- 18. The Politics of the Cinema of Integration -- 19. The Ordinary Cinema of Ron Howard -- 20. Steven Spielberg's Search for the Father -- 21. D. W. Griffith's Suspense -- 22. Films That Separate -- Part 4. The Cinema of Intersection: Collisions of Desire and Fantasy -- 23.The Separation of Desire and Fantasy -- 24. Theorizing the Real -- 25. The Politics of the Cinema of Intersection -- 26. The Overlapping Worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky -- 27. Alain Resnais between the Present and the Past -- 28. Wim Wenders and the Ethics of Fantasizing -- 29. The Sexual Relationship with David Lynch -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.