Introduction - "Proust", the movie, John Orr. Part 1 Political fiction and the cinema: "The Trial" of Orson Welles, John Orr; filming the unfilmable - Volker Schlondorff and "The Tin Drum", Richard Kilborn; "A Dry White Season" - the personal and the political, Olga Taxidou and Vassiliki Kolocotroni; Peter Weir's version - "The Year of Living Dangerously", John Orr; "Nineteen Eighty Four" and "1984", John Ellis; "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" on film, Catherine Fellowes. Part 2 Hollywood and the literary product: words selling pictures, John Izod; the impossible object - reflections on "The Shining", John Brown; "Dune" - a tale of two texts, Elizabeth and Michael Liddel; Ballard's nightmares, Spielberg's dreams - "Empire of the Sun", Frank Gormlie; Hollywood and race - "To kill a Mockingbird", Colin Nicholson; "Blade Runner" - the economic shaping of a film, Rick Instrell; some narrative sources of "Alien", Robbie Robertson.
