Contents -- I. The Virtual Life of Film -- 1. Futureworld -- 2. The Incredible Shrinking Medium -- 3. Back to the Future -- II. What Was Cinema? -- 4. Film Begets Video -- 5. The Death of Cinema and the Birth of Film Studies -- 6. A Medium in All Things -- 7. Automatisms and Art -- 8. Automatism and Photography -- 9. Succession and the Film Strip -- 10. Ways of Worldmaking -- 11. A World Past -- 12. An Ethics of Time -- III. A New Landscape (Without Image) -- 13. An Elegy for Film -- 14. The New "Media" -- 15. Paradoxes of Perceptual Realism -- 16. Real Is as Real Does -- 17. Lost in Translation: Analogy and Index Revisited -- 18. Simulation, or Automatism as Algorithm -- 19. An Image That Is Not "One" -- 20. Two Futures for Electronic Images, or What Comes after Photography? -- 21. The Digital Event -- 22. Transcoded Ontologies, or "A Guess at the Riddle" -- 23. Old and New, or the (Virtual) Renascence of Cinema Studies -- Acknowledgments.