Table of Contents Preface by Terry Eagleton Introduction: Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature Modernism A Modernist Manifesto Cinema and Modernism Modernism as Realism Shakespeare Review of Frank Kermode's Shakespeare's Language Review of Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World Review of Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The Biography Tanner and Shakespeare Language, Literacy and literature Television and Literacy Compacted Doctrines: William Empson and the Meaning of Words (with Alan Durant) Why are the Arabs not free? Frank Kermode: The Greatest Literary Critic In Words We Are Made Flesh: Towards a New Cambridge Philology Theory A Defense of Criticism Barthes and Bazin: The Ontology of the Image Bataille and Eroticism The Schreber case: How Queer was Freud? Film Godard: The Commerce of Cinema Film Essays from Criterion: Polanski: The Truest Tess Pasolini's Trilogy of Life The Decameron: The Past is the Present The Canterbury Tales: Sex and Death Arabian Nights: Brave Old World Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis X1V Sound, Image and Every Man for Himself Kieslowski's Three Colors Sudden Death: Asseyas's Carlos Report from Cannes 2015: Lazlo Nenes's Son of Saul Derek Jarman: A Lost Leader Watching Films to Mourn the Death of Empire: Introduction to a website Politics and Culture An Interview with Stuart Hall Our Fenian Dead: The Inheritance of Martyrdom (with Jennifer Keating).