Includes bibliographical references and index.

What becomes of things on film? (1978) -- On Makavejev on Bergman (1979) -- North by northwest (1981) -- The fact of television (1982) -- The thought of movies (1983) -- What (good) is a film museum? What is a film culture? (1983) -- What photography calls thinking (1985) -- A Capra moment (1985) -- The fantastic of philosophy (1986) -- Two cheers for romance (1988) -- The advent of videos (1988) -- Prenom : Marie (1993) -- Nothing goes without saying : reading the Marx brothers (1994) -- Seasons of love : Bergman's Smiles of a summer night and The winter's tale (1994) -- Words of welcome (1996) -- Groundhog day (1996) -- Something out of the ordinary (1996) -- The world as things : collecting thoughts on collecting (1998) -- Concluding remarks presented at Paris Colloquium on La projection du monde (1999) -- On Eric Rohmer's A tale of winter (1999) -- The image of the psychoanalyst in film (2000) -- Opera in (and as) film (2000) -- Philosophy the day after tomorrow (2000) -- The good of film (2000) -- Moral reasoning : teaching from the core (2001) -- Crossing paths (2002) -- After half a century (2001)

"This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of Stanley Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film. Cavell is the only major philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition who has made film a central concern of his work, and his work offers inspiration and new directions to the field of film studies. The essays and other writings in this volume, presented in the order of their