Table of Contents
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
Chapter 1: Representing Atrocity |
The Fantastic |
Chapter 2: The Real Petiot |
The Trial |
Chapter 3: Docteur Petiot: The Film |
Disruption of Social Orders |
The Reality Effect |
Representing Vichy France |
The Filmic Narrative |
Expressionism in Docteur Petiot |
Vision of Evil |
Sounds of the Enemy |
Chapter 4: Historical Allusion in Delicatessen |
The Binary Structure |
Cause and Effect |
The Soundtrack |
Erasure of Time and Space |
The Carnivalesque |
Chapter 5: Daily Routine |
The Absent Soul |
Défaite de la Raison |