List of Figures
List of Permissions
Acknowledgements
Note on the Texts

General Introduction

Part 1: Thinking for a Feminist Philosophy of Cinema
1. The Cinema - Virginia Woolf
2. The Male Gift - Christine Battersby
3. A Note on Anger - Marilyn Frye
4. The Sensory Celebration (I) - Anne Dufourmantelle

Part 2: Film Aesthetics
5. Vision and Choice in Morality - Iris Murdoch
6. The Language of Film - Katherine Thomson-Jones
7. Back to the Future? Contemporary Cinema and the Challenges for Theorists - Sylvie Magerstädt
8. Horrorism; or, On Violence Against the Helpless - Adriana Cavarero
9. Shimmering Phantasmagoria: Trans/Cinema/Aesthetics in an Age of Technological Reproducibility - Eliza Steinbock
10. Remembering in Art: The Horizontal and the Vertical - Siri Hustvedt

Part 3: Film Phenomenology and Bodies
11. Céline Sciamma's 'Queer' Cinema: Affirming Gestures of Refusal in Tomboy and Girlhood - Katharina Lindner
12. Pain and Imagining - Elaine Scarry
13. Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation - Iris Marion Young
14. The Beasts that Perish - Mary Midgley

Part 4: Film and the Time Machine
15. Creating Movies with a New Dimension: Time - Maya Deren
16. Feminist Temporalities: Memory, Ghosts, and the Collapse of Time - Brydie Kosmina
17. Sharing Time Across Unshared Horizons - Gail Weiss
18. Time Binds, or, Erotohistoriography - Elizabeth Freeman
Part 5: Film's Political Power 19. Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde
20. "Whose Pussy is This?" A Feminist Comment - bell hooks
21. Posthuman Humanities: Life Beyond Theory - Rosi Braidotti
22. Notes on an Alternative Model-Neither/Nor - Hortense J. Spillers
23. Seeing in the Dark: Attentive Engagement - Jane Stadler

Part 6: Changing the Dominant Imaginary
24. Breasts - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
25. Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions - Alison Kafer
26. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images - Patricia Hill Collins
27. Women and Bugs - Cynthia A. Freeland