This authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy of film and motion pictures. Designed for classroom use, the essays that comprise this volume have been specially chosen for their clarity, precision, philosophical depth, and consonance with current cognitive science and psychology.

1. Photography and representation
2. The aesthetics of photographic transparency
3. Everybody gets a cut : DVDs give viewers dozens of choices and that's the problem
4. The world viewed
5. A note on the film
6. Vision and dream in the cinema
7. The long goodbye : the imaginary language of film
8. Moving pictures
9. Defining the moving image
10. Visible traces : documentary and the contents of photographs
11. Fiction, non-fiction, and the film of presumptive assertion : a conceptual analysis
12. Le Grand Imagier steps out : the primitive basis of film narration
13. Unreliability refigured : narrative in literature and film
14. Film, emotion, and genre
15. Fearing fictions
16. Empathy and (film) fiction
17. Identification and emotion in narrative film
18. In fictional shoes : mental simulation and fiction
19. Morals for method
20. Cinematic authorship
21. National cinema, the very idea
22. Film criticism and virtue theory
23. Beauty and evil : the case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the will
24. A first look at the pornography/civil rights ordinance : could pornography be the subordination of women?
25. The philosophical limits of film
26. Minerva in the movies : relations between philosophy and film
27. Motion pictures as a philosophical resource