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David LaRocca is the author or contributing editor of twenty books, including The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2020), Attention Spans: Garrett Stewart, A Reader (Bloomsbury 2024), and Closer Reading (Bloomsbury, 2025).

• Introduction: From Bandwidths to BandschriftDavid LaRoccaPart I / Audited Text1. Voiceover (Herbert F. Tucker, University of Virginia, USA)Writing the Voice (Garrett Stewart)2. Stewart-reading: An Art of Attention (Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University, USA)The Sound of One Hand Raised (Garrett Stewart)Part II / Close (and Too-Close) Viewing3. Apparatus and Dispositif: A Three-Dimensional Look at the Cinema Screen (Dudley Andrew, Emeritus, Yale University, USA)Depth Perception (Garrett Stewart)4. Hitchcock's Little Mistakes (Dial M for Murder) (D. A. Miller, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA)The Man Who Sees Too Much (Garrett Stewart)Part III / Screen Narratography / Reflex Reading5. Reading the Voice's Places: Narratography and the Streisand Sound (James Chandler, University of Chicago, USA)Graphing Voice's S/pace (Garrett Stewart)6. Reading Itself (William H. Galperin, Emeritus, Rutgers University, USA) Guilty Pleasures? (Garrett Stewart)Part IV / Cinemachinations7. Time, Space, and the Frame: On the Vicissitudes of the Off-Screen (Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago, USA)Time Pieces (Garrett Stewart)8. Understanding That Media Understand Media, Or, a Life in the Hall of Cinematic Mirrors (Paul Young, Dartmouth College, USA)Parallel Homage (Garrett Stewart)Part V / Cultural Ma(r)kers: immersion and Performance9. Immersion: The Spectator Gets Into It (Paul H. Fry, Emeritus, Yale University, USA)Wading In, Weighing In (Garrett Stewart)10. Two of the Great Italicizers: Barbra Streisand and Elaine May (Ross Posnock, Columbia University, USA)Diva-gations (Garrett Stewart)Part VI / Demediation / Transmedium11. Infratextuality and the Art of Samuel Levi Jones (Bill Brown, University of Chicago, USA)From Textual Refuse to Conceptual Reuse (Garrett Stewart)12. Paraphones for Garrett Stewart (John Cayley, Brown University, USA)Battery Level High: Earphones Recharged (Garrett Stewart)Part VII / Medium 1.0: Wording the World13. Mirror, Mirror (Timothy Gould, Emeritus, Metropolitan State University, USA)Figuring a Way (Garrett Stewart)Contributors

Here is a volume of writing about voices, faces, sentences, songs, paintings, spelling, mirrors, reading, technology, time, and other objects of considerable interest. How could one evoke and study such diverse matters without getting lost? We may not know the answer, but this book does. Its themes divide but its many roads keep meeting. Language is not only a medium but a source of light. A film looks out at its viewer and back at the material it is made of. No one splits hairs here, but many of the writers like to split words. The result isn’t always immediately intelligible, but it is always, to borrow an example from Garrett Stewart, intel/legible. An amazing work of critical theory and practice.