Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Frontispiece - Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair as Fallout Shelter
Part One: Geographies
Chapter 1 - Agoraphobia: Marguerite Duras’s Hiroshima mon amour and The Vice-Consul
Chapter 2 - Heterotopia: Alexander Kluge’s Yesterday Girl and The Blind Director
Part Two: Boundaries
Chapter 3 - Matricide: Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
Chapter 4 - Womb Envy: Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, and Hail Mary
End Piece - The Future Is Here, and It’s Dead: Damien Hirst’s Virgin Mother
Notes
Works Cited
Index