Description: Contents Introduction: Criticism as "Exact Fantasy" Part One: Two-Way Street: Three Australian Films 1. A Sri Lankan reading of Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries 2. Reception, genre and the knowing critic: Dennis O'Rourke's The Good Woman of Bangkok 3. Post-colonial Gothic: the narcissistic wound of Jane Campion's The Piano Part Two: Performance of Narcissism 4. Speaking of Ceylon: a clash of cultures 5. Anna Rodrigo interviews LJ on A Song of Ceylon(1988) 6. Anna Rodrigo interviews LJ on Row row row your boat (1992) Part Three: Melodramatic Femininity in Sri Lanka 7. Myths of femininity in the Sri Lankan cinema, 1947-1989 8. Sri Lankan family melodrama: a cinema of primitive attractions 9. An alternative cinematic and critical practice: Under the Bridge (Palama Yata) as critical melodrama Part Four: Movements of Time 10. Deleuzean redemption of Bazin: a note on the neorealist moment 11. Modes of performance in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 12. Life is a Dream, Raul Ruiz was a surrealist in Sydney: a capillary memory of a cultural event Part Five: Convulsive Knowing 13. A slapstick time : mimetic convulsion, convulsive knowing 14. "Eyes in the back of your head": erotics of learning in Blue Steel and Silence of the Lambs 15. "Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks"? Do the Right Thing ?"a Spike Lee joint": blocking and unblocking The Block Notes Bibliography Index

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