His article is a condensed version of a chapter from his forthcoming book, Fiction and the Camera Eye: Visual Consciousness in Film and the Modern Novel (University Press of Virginia). Mr. Spiegel says his interest in film began at age 3 when his father took him to see Sabu in The Thief of Bagdad and his interest in the relationships between film and literature at 18 when he read Ulysses. Mr. Spiegel is currently at work on a book-length study of style and form in the American cinema.