Eleven essays, some pillars from his pantheon - 'Sansho Dayu', 'Letter from an Unknown Woman', 'Touch of Evil', 'I Walked With a Zombie' - as well as 'Hawks De-Wollenized', 'Images of Childhood', 'Big Game - Confessions of an Unreconstructed Humanist' and 'In Defence of Art - on Current Tendencies in Film Criticism'; bibliography.