Pretty: film and the decorative image

Introduction : the pretty as troublesome image

From aesthetics to film aesthetics : or, beauty and truth redux

Colors : Derek Jarman and queer aesthetics

Ornament and modernity : from decorative art to cultural criticism

Objects : oriental style and the arabesques of Moulin Rouge!

At the crossroads : iconoclasm and the anti-aesthetic in postwar film and theory

Forms : Soy Cuba and revolutionary beauty

Perverse prettiness : sexuality, gender, and aesthetic exclusion

Bodies : the sumptuous charms of Ulrike Ottinger

Postscript : toward a worldly image.