Notes on contributors -- Preface -- PART I: Issues and concepts. Acting / Johannes Riis -- Authorship / Aaron Meskin -- Censorship / Susan Dwyer -- Consciousness / Murray Smith -- Definition of "cinema" / Trevor Ponech -- Depiction / Robert Hopkins -- Digital cinema / Berys Gaut -- Emotion and affect / Carl Plantinga -- Empathy and character engagement / Amy Coplan -- Ethics / Folke Tersman -- Film as art / Robert Stecker -- Formalism / Katherine Thomson-Jones -- Gender / Angela Curran and Carol Donelan -- Genre / Brian Laetz and Dominic McIver Lopes -- Interpretation / George Wilson -- Medium / Kevin W. Sweeney -- Music / Jeff Smith -- Narration / Noèel Carroll -- Narrative closure / Noèel Carroll -- Ontology / David Davies -- Race / Dan Flory -- Realism / Andrew Kania -- Spectatorship / Carl Plantinga -- Sound / Giorgio Biancorosso -- Style / Noèel Carroll -- Violence / Stephen Prince -- PART II: Authors and trends. Rudolph Arnheim / Jinhee Choi -- Walter Benjamin / Stâephane Symons -- David Bordwell / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Bertolt Brecht / Angela Curran -- Noèel Carroll / Jonathan Frome -- Stanley Cavell / William Rothman -- Cognitive theory / David Bordwell -- Gilles Deleuze / Ronald Bogue -- Sergei Eisenstein / David Bordwell -- Christian Metz / Francesco Casetti -- Jean Mitry / Brian Lewis -- Edgar Morin / Dudley Andrew -- Hugo Mèunsterberg / Don Fredericksen -- Phenomenology / Vivian Sobchack -- Psychoanalysis / Richard Allen -- Semiotics and semiology / Joseph G. Kickasola -- Wittgenstein / Malcolm Turvey -- PART III: Genres and other types. Dogme / Mette Hjort -- Documentary / Carl Plantinga -- Horror / Aaron Smuts -- Pornography / Susan Dwyer -- Avant-garde film / Maureen Turim -- Tragedy and comedy / Deborah Knight -- PART IV: Film as philosophy. Film as philosophy / Thomas E. Wartenberg -- Ingmar Bergman / Paisley Livingston -- Terrence Malick / David Davies -- Andrei Tarkovsky / Andrâas Bâalint Kovâacs -- Why be moral? / Chris Falzon -- Skepticism / Richard Fumerton -- Personal identity / Deborah Knight -- Practical wisdom and the good ground of Gettysburg / Joseph Kupfer -- The Five Obstructions / Mette Hjort -- Gattaca / Neven Sesardic -- Memento / Andrew Kania.