An overview of the director's career via categories of 'narrative form', 'construction of space', 'problematic unities' etc., followed by longer pieces on 'The Passion of Joan of Arc', 'Vampyr', 'Day of Wrath', 'Ordet', and 'Gertrud'; 300+ frame enlargements; together with 'Filmguide to La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc' (Indiana University Press, first paperback edition, 1973), the author's first book.
