Preface. Stanley Cavell and cinema / Thomas Elsaesser
Introduction. Philosophy's claim to film, film's claim to philosophy / David Larocca
"Assertions in technique" : tracking the medial "thread" in Cavell's filmic ontology / Garrett Stewart
Revisiting the world viewed / Noël Carroll
The world heard / Kyle Stevens
What a genre of film might be : medium, myth, and morality / Stephen Mulhall
Cinemas of de-marriage : my troubled relationship with Cavell / Scott Macdonald
Film as film and the personal / William Rothman
Between skepticism and perfectionism : on Cavell's melodrama of the unknown woman / Robert Sinnerbrink
Overcoming skepticism in Casablanca / Thomas E. Wartenberg
A skeptic's reprieve : Cavell on comedy in Shakespeare and the movies / Lawrence F. Rhu
Film exists in a state of philosophy : two contemporary Cavellian views / Shawn Loht
The conception of film for the subject of television : moral education of the public and a return to an aesthetics of the ordinary / Sandra Laugier
On film in reality : Cavellian reflections on skepticism, belief, and documentary / Mathew Abbott
On the aesthetics of amateur filmmaking in narrative cinema : experiencing home movies after Adam's rib / David Larocca.