Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Screen Author--Wanted: Dead or Alive
1. Typecasting the Author
2. Beyond Adaptation: The Writer as Filmmaker
3. The Author at the Dream Factory: The Screenwriter and the Movies
4. The Authoress: Textuality as Sexuality
5. Writing Pain: The Infirm Author
6. Cinecriture: Word and Image
7. Corpus and Oeuvre: Authorship and the Body
8. Stealing Beauty: The Reader, the Critic, and the Appropriation of the Authorial Voice
Afterword: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
