Laleen Jayamanne taught Cinema Studies in the Department of Art History and Film at the University of Sydney. She is the author of The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani (IUP 2015).

• Foreword: In Memory of Thomas Elsaesser, Introduction: Spirit of the Gift-Cinematic Reciprocity, Ch 1. A Gift Economy: GW Pabst's Pandora's Box (1929), Ch 2. Fabric of Thought: Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegrantes (1968), Ashik Kerib (1988), Ch 3. Nicole Kidman in Blue Light: Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Ch 4. Ornamentation and Pathology: Raul Ruiz' Klimt (2006), Afterword: Poetics of Film Pedagogy, Bibliography, Filmography, Index