Theorizing the drift -- Making the old words new: -Dos Passos, modernism, and the cinematic infection -- An epidemic of seeing: -- Delillo, postmodernism, and fiction in the age of images -- A dark-adapting eye: -- Moore, Campion, and the fractured world of postmodern noir -- Inventing Nat Turner: -- Charles Burnett and the postmodern history film -- Drifting on