Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface to the Second Edition xi
5. Introduction xxv
6. 1 What Becomes of Things on Film? 1
7. 2 On Makavejev on Bergman 11
8. 3 North by Northwest 41
9. 4 The Fact of Television 59
10. 5 The Thought of Movies 87
11. 6 What (Good) Is a Film Museum? What Is a Film Culture? 107
12. 7 What Photography Calls Thinking 115
13. 8 A Capra Moment 135
14. 9 The Fantastic of Philosophy 145
15. 10 Two Cheers for Romance 153
16. 11 The Advent of Videos 167
17. 12 Prénom: Marie 175
18. 13 Nothing Goes without Saying: Reading the Marx Brothers 183
19. 14 Seasons of Love 193
20. 15 Words of Welcome 205
21. 16 Groundhog Day 221
22. 17 Something Out of the Ordinary 223
23. 18 The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting 241
24. 19 Concluding Remarks Presented at Paris Colloquium on La Projection du monde 281
25. 20 On Eric Rohmer’s A Tale of Winter 287
26. 21 The Image of the Psychoanalyst in Film 295
27. 22 Opera in (and As) Film 305
28. 23 Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow 319
29. 24 The Good of Film 333
30. 25 Moral Reasoning 349
31. 26 Crossing Paths 361
32. 27 After Half a Century 375
33. 28 Introducing The Lady Eve 383
34. 29 Slapstick without Sticks 387
35. 30 Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise 397
36. 31 Doug Liman’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith 429
37. 32 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 435
38. 33 Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale 453
39. Index 455