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What is film? Why are movies important? Why do we care about them the way we do? How do we think of the connections between the projected image and what it is actually an image of? In this thought-provoking book, Stanley Cavell looks closely at these and other questions concerning America's most popular art and the perceptions we make of, by, and through it. His answers are surprising and important―not only to our understanding of film and of ourselves, but to our expectations of life and art.