List of Illustrations,Acknowledgements,Introduction, Part I Non-cinema, 1 The Death of (a) Cinema: The State of Things, 2 Jafar Panahi's Forbidden Tetralogy: This Is Not a Film, Closed Curtain, Taxi Tehran, Three Faces, 3 Film as Death: The Act of Killing, 4 The Blind Spot of History: Colonialism in Tabu, Part II Intermedial Passages, 5 The Geidomono Genre and Intermedial Acting in Ozu and Mizoguchi, 6 Intermedial History-Telling: Mysteries of Lisbon, 7 Passages to Reality: The Case of Brazilian Cinema, Part III Towards Total Cinema, 8 The Reality of Art: Ossessione, 9 Historicising the Story through Film and Music: An Intermedial Reading of Heimat 2, 10 Total Cinema as Mode of Production, Bibliography, Index.