and this lucid and caustic study gets fetishism just right, in revealing close studies of works like Citizen Kane and Imitation of Life, revealing the cover up of labor and the will to domination, as well as the pleasures in the narrative drive to see/not see. Curious spectacles that allow the cinema-goer to keep going, even as the US power of fetish covers up exploitation with glamour and sheen and fashion and sublimity, not to mention the recent drive to romanticize imperial fascism in works like Hero. Gladiator, and The Last Samurai. Laura Mulvey is necessary reading, still.