Contents -- Foreword by George Wilson -- Introduction -- 1 Forget the Medium! -- 2 Film, Attention, and Communication: A Naturalistic Account -- 3 Film, Emotion, and Genre -- 4 Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor -- 5 Is the Medium a (Moral) Message? -- 6 Film Form: An Argument for a Functional Theory of Style in the Individual Film -- 7 Introducing Film Evaluation -- 8 Nonfiction Film and Postmodernist Skepticism -- 9 Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: Conceptual Analyses -- 10 Photographic Traces and Documentary Films: Comments for Gregory Currie -- 11 Toward a Definition of Moving-Picture Dance -- 12 The Essence of Cinema? -- 13 TV and Film: A Philosophical Perspective -- 14 Kracauer's Theory of Film -- 15 Cinematic Nation Building: Eisenstein's The Old and the New -- 16 The Professional Western: South of the Border -- 17 Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers -- 18 Prospects for Film Theory: A Personal Assessment -- Credits -- Index.