Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forget the medium! -- Film, attention, and communication : a naturalistic account -- Film, emotion, and genre -- Ethnicity, race and monstrosity : the rhetorics of horror and humor -- Is the medium a (Moral) message? -- Film form : an argument for a functional theory of style in the individual film -- Introducing film evaluation -- Nonfiction film and postmodernist skepticism -- Fiction, nonfiction, and the film of presumptive assertion : conceptual analyses -- Photographic traces and documentary films : comments for Gregory Currie -- Toward a definition of moving-picture dance -- The essence of Cinema? -- TV and film : a philosophical perspective -- Kracauer's Theory of film -- Cinematic nation building : Eisenstein's The old and the new -- The professional western : South of the border -- Moving and moving : from minimalism to lives of performers -- Prospects for film theory : a personal assessment.

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