Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. Part I. Films and Worlds
7. 1. Worlds within worlds: Fictions, Narrative, and Aesthetic Enclosure 3
8. Part II. Worlds of Symbols
9. 2. The framework of worlds: Symbolization, Meaning, and Art 39
10. 3. Filmmaking as symbolic transformation 60
11. 4. Ways of cinematic world-making 86
12. 5. Representation, exemplification, and reflexivity: An Alternative Approach to the Symbolic Dimension of Cinematic Art 114
13. Part III. Worlds of Feeling
14. 6. Forms of feeling: Mapping Affect and Emotions in Films 161
15. 7. Cineaesthetic world-feeling and immersion 190
16. Part IV. Worlds of Truth
17. 8. Toward an existential hermeneutics of film worlds 229
18. Notes 269
19. Bibliography 287
20. Index 299