Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Looking Backward - An Introduction to the Concept of "Post" p. 1
The Past, the Present, the Virtual p. 1
Method p. 5
The "P" Word p. 9
A Road Map p. 11
The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flaneur/Flaneuse p. 15
Modernity and the "Panoptic" Gaze p. 17
Modernity and the "Virtual" Gaze p. 20
The Baudelairean Observer: The "Mobilized" Gaze of the Flaneur p. 29
The Gender of the Observer: The Flaneuse p. 32
The "Mobilized" and "Virtual" Gaze p. 37
Passage I: The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola p. 41
The Passage from Arcade to Cinema p. 47
The Commodity-Experience p. 53
Re: Construction - The Public Interior/The Private Exterior p. 61
The Mobilized Gaze: Toward the Virtual p. 68
From the Arcade to the Cinema p. 90
Passage II: A Short Film is More of a "Rest Cure" p. 97
The Cinema as Time Machine p. 100
Window-Shopping Through Time p. 104
Les Flaneurs/Flaneuse Du Mall p. 109
The Mall p. 111
Temporality and Cinema Spectatorship p. 125
Spectatorial Flanerie p. 132
Cybertechnology: From Observer to Participant p. 143
Postmodern Flanerie: To Spatialize Temporality p. 147
Passage III: Architecture: Looking Forward, Looking Backward p. 151
The End of Modernity: Where Is Your Rupture? p. 157
The Architectural Model p. 158
The Cinema and Modernity/Modernism: The "Avant-Garde" as a Troubling Third Term p. 162
Jameson and the Cinematic "Postmodern" p. 168
Cinema and Postmodernity p. 174
Postmodernity Without the Word p. 177
Conclusion: Spending Time p. 181
Post-Script: The Fate of Feminism in Postmodernity p. 193
Warnings at the Post p. 193
Postfeminism? p. 194
Beyond Indifference p. 198
Neither or Both: An Epilogue to the Period of the Plural p. 201
Notes p. 203
Index p. 281
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