Introduction: the screen author wanted: dead or alive
Typecasting the author
Beyond adaptation: the writer as filmmaker
The author at the dream factory: the screenwriter and the movies
The authoress: textuality as sexuality
Writing pain: the infirm author
Word and image
Corpus and oeuvre: authorship and the body
Stealing beauty: the reader, the critic, and the appropriation of the authorial voice
Afterword: Signs and meaning in the cinema.
Body double : the author incarnate in the cinema by Lucy Fischer. ISBN 9780813554488. Published by Rutgers University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.