Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. “Every Theory Needs a Reference to Lived Experience” : An Interview with Jean-Pierre Meunier 14
5. Part I - Jean-Pierre Meunier The Structures of the Film Experience: Filmic Identification
6. Introduction 32
7. Part One: Introduction to the General Structures of Experience 38
8. Part Two: The Film Experience 69
9. General Conclusion 152
10. Part II - Critical Essays, Historical Assessments, Phenomenological Expansions
11. I: Placing Meunier in the History of Film Theory
12. Stages of an Encounter with Filmic Identification 159
13. Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis : Jean-Pierre Meunier’s Theory of Identification in the Cinema 173
14. The Missing Link: Meunier on Imagination and Emotional Engagement 190
15. II: On the Home-movie attitude
16. ‘Me, Myself, and I’: On the Uncanny in Home Movies 205
17. Remembering Cinema: On the film-souvenir 218
18. III: On Identification
19. You Talkin’ to Me? On Filmic Identification in Video-Selfies 233
20. Illuminating Reality : Cinematic Identification Revisited in the Eyes of Buddhist Philosophies 245
21. Whose Identification? A Brief Meditation on the Relevance of Jean- Pierre Meunier’s The Structures of the Film Experience to Contemporary Feminist Film Phenomenology 259
22. IV: Referentiality and Mediation
23. Jean-Pierre Meunier’s Modalities of the “Filmic Attitude”: Towards a Theory of Referentiality in Cinematic Discourse 273
24. Phenomenology, Immediacy, and Mediation : On Derrida, Meunier, and Landgrebe 288
25. V: Phenomenological Expansions
26. Cinema and Child’s Play 304
27. Engines of the Historical Imagination : Towards a Phenomenology of Cinema as Non-Art 321
28. When Viewers Drift Off: A Brief Phenomenology of Cinematic Daydreaming 336
29. List of Illustrations 353