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Introduction

Chapter 1 Youth in Revolt
Part 1 Les quatre cents coups (François Truffaut, 1959)
Part 2 On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
Part 3 The British Invasion (1964–67)
Part 4 Melody (Waris Hussein, 1971)

Chapter 2 Forbidden Love
Part 1 The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Part 2 Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
Part 3 The Passionate Friends (David Lean, 1949)
Part 4 A Story from Chikamatsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

Chapter 3 Family Values
Part 1 The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
Part 2 Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
Part 3 Tokyo Story (Yasujir¿ Ozu, 1953)
Part 4 Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)

Chapter 4 Under Authority
Part 1 La grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
Part 2 Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1966)
Part 3 L’enfance nue (Maurice Pialat, 1968)
Part 4 La chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

Chapter 5 Great Escapes
Part 1 Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
Part 2 The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973)
Part 3 Le monde du silence (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle, 1956)
Part 4 Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)

Chapter 6 Creature Comforts
Part 1 My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
Part 2 Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
Part 3 Fantastic Mr Fox (Roald Dahl, 1970)
Part 4 Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978)

Chapter 7 Life and Death
Part 1 Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Part 2 Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)
Part 3 Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947)
Part 4 Pigs and Battleships (Shôhei Imamura, 1961)

Chapter 8 Character and Perspective
Part 1 Stefan Zweig, selected works
Part 2 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Part 3 Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
Part 4 The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

Chapter 9 Colour and Composition
Part 1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, selected works
Part 2 Mark Rothko, selected works
Part 3 Jacques Henri Lartigue, selected works
Part 4 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)

Viewing Recommendations
Wes Anderson Filmography
Index
Image Credits
Biographies and Author Acknowledgements