| List of Photographic Reproductions | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | The Labyrinth: Cognition and Tragic Imagination | 15 |
| 1 | Francesco di Assisi: The Medieval Chronicle and the Establishing of Physical Reality | 17 |
| 2 | Realism against Illusion: The Ceremonial Divestiture of Power in Galileo | 37 |
| 3 | Metaphors of Revolt: The Dialogic Silence in I cannibali | 57 |
| Pt. 2 | The Transgressive Gaze: Style as Tension | 79 |
| 4 | Toward a Negative Mythopoeia: Spectacle Memory, and Representation in The Night Porter | 81 |
| 5 | Staging the Gaze: Beyond Good and Evil | 116 |
| 6 | Theatricality and Reflexivity in The Berlin Affair | 140 |
| Pt. 3 | Metaphors of Vision | 159 |
| 7 | The Architectonics of Form: Francesco and Milarepa | 161 |
| 8 | The Essential Solitude: A Conclusion | 188 |
| Notes | 195 |
| Filmography | 251 |
| Bibliography | 259 |
| Index | 305 |
