Includes bibliographical references and index.

Photography and representation / Roger Scruton -- The aesthetics of photographic transparency / Dominic McIver Lopes -- Everybody gets a cut / Terrence Rafferty -- From the world viewed / Stanley Cavell -- A note on the film / Susanne K. Langer -- Vision and dream in the cinema / F.E. Sparshott -- The long goodbye / Gregory Currie -- Moving pictures / Arthur C. Danto -- Defining the moving image / Noèel Carroll -- Visible traces / Gregory Currie -- Fiction, non-fiction, and the film of presumptive assumption / Noèel Carroll -- Le grand imagier steps out / George M. Wilson -- Unreliability refigured / Gregory Currie -- Film, emotion, and genre / Noèel Carroll -- Fearing fictions / Kendall Walton -- Empathy and (film) fiction / Alex Neill -- Identification and emotion in narrative film / Berys Gaut -- In fictional shoes / Deborah Knight -- Morals for method / George M. Wilson -- Cinematic authorship / Paisley Livingston -- National cinema / Jinhee Choi -- Film criticism and virtue theory / Joseph H. Kupfer -- Beauty and evil / Mary Devereaux -- A first look at the pornography/civil rights ordinance / Melinda Vadas -- The philosophical limits of film / Bruce Russell -- Minerva in the movies / Karen Hanson -- Film as a philosophical resource / Lester H. Hunt.