1. Introduction: The Ideology of Formal Subsumption 1
PART I 2. The Economics of Ideology: Popular Film Form and Mode of Production 29 3. The Absolutist Gaze: Political Structure and Cultural Form 52 4. Guardians of the View: The prohibition of the Private 88
PART II 5. The Moment of Disaggregation 117 6. The Aesthetic of Mobilization 138 7. Middle-Class Cinema 160 8. The Developmental Aesthetic 188 9. Towards Real Subsumption?: Signs of Ideological Reform in Two Recent Films 217