Cinema as reflective form. Cinematic reflection ; Cinematic self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
Moral variations. Devils and angels in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her ; Confounding morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt
Social pathologies. Cinematic tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: can "life" itself be "false"? ; Love and class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows
Irony and mutuality. Cinematic irony: the strange case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar ; Passive and active skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place
Agency and meaning. Vernacular metaphysics: on Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line ; Psychology degree zero? the representation of action in the films of the Dardenne Brothers.
