| Acknowledgments | |
| Mapping Out Discourse: An Introduction | 3 |
| Pt. I | Suppressed Knowledge of Elvira Coda Notari and Neapolitan Film: A Historical Panorama | |
| 1 | Questions of History and Film in Italian Culture | 11 |
| 2 | Film Journals and Film Historiography | 24 |
| Pt. II | Film in the Cityscape: A Topoanalysis of Spectatorship | |
| 3 | Streetwalking around Plato's Cave, or The Unconscious Is Housed | 35 |
| 4 | Spectatorial Embodiments: Anatomies of the Visible and the Female Bodyscape | 58 |
| Pt. III | Manufacturing Film Culture | |
| 5 | Dora Film: An Urban Production House | 79 |
| 6 | Women at Work: Manufacturing Movies | 105 |
| 7 | Dora Film of America: Women and Immigrants in the American Dream | 122 |
| 8 | Censorship: A Cut on the Wings of Desire | 137 |
| Pt. IV | The Metropolitan Texture | |
| 9 | Fragments of an Analyst's Discourse: Lacunae | 147 |
| 10 | The Architecture of Public Melodrama: A Corporeality of the Street | 161 |
| 11 | Between the Feast and the Law: The Carnivalization of Narration | 187 |
| 12 | City Views: Filmic Cityscape, Artistic Perspective, and Touristic Travel | 201 |
| Pt. V | Female Geographies | |
| 13 | Anatomy of an Analysis: The Authorial Noir | 233 |
| 14 | Popular Cinema and Women's Literature: The Transito of Female Discourse | 241 |
| 15 | Medical Figures: Hysteria and the Anatomy Lesson | 255 |
| 16 | Topographies of Dark Female Pleasures | 278 |
| 17 | Written on the Body: Eroticism, Death, and Hagiography | 309 |
| Notes | 329 |
| Filmography | 391 |
| List of Illustrations | 399 |
| Index | 405 |
