Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: Idiocy and Cultural Representation
  • Part I: Idiocy in the Nineteenth Century
  • 1 Romantic and Victorian Idiots
  • 2 Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert and Jean Renoir)
  • 3 The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky and Akira Kurosawa)
  • Part II: Idiocy and Modernism
  • 4 The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad and Alfred Hitchcock)
  • 5 Kaspar Hauser (Jakob Wassermann and Werner Herzog)
  • 6 Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck and Lewis Milestone)
  • Part III: Idiocy After World War II
  • 7 Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor and John Huston)
  • 8 Waterland (Graham Swift and Stephen Gyllenhaal)
  • 9 Such a Long Journey (Rohinton Mistry and Sturla Gunnarsson)
  • Conclusion: Idiocy in Contemporary Film
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index.