1. German expressionist film and Heidegger's fourfold -- 2. French moderne, modernist noir, and moderns as masters of reinvention -- 3. The domestic front : Hollywood and postwar cinema -- 4. Swinging time in London -- 5. Positioning women in time and space -- 6. Modernist utopia : the spirit of the future -- 7. Not thinking but questioning : Terence Malick's Expressions of world and ground -- 8. Speeding into the unfixed future in Tokyo -- 9. Fear and trembling : a study of why movies make us afraid.