From the Book - This paperback edition first published by Verso 2017.
Our Classicism. Narrative bodies : Rubens and history
Wagner as dramatist and allegorist
Transcendence and movie music in Mahler. Late Modernism in Film. Angelopoulos and collective narrative
History and elegy in Sokurov
Dekalog as Decameron. Adaptation as Experiment in the Postmodern. Eurotrash or Regieoper?
Altman and the national-popular, or, misery and totality?
Realism and utopia in The Wire
Counterfactual socialisms