Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.

Phenomenology and film -- Origins -- The spectrum of film consciousness -- Dialectic misgivings -- Phenomenological grounding -- Realist theory -- Real to reel -- Lifeworld encounters -- Intentionality -- Phenomenological hermeneutics -- Gadamer's play -- Body and transcendence -- Merleau-Ponty's embodiment -- Expression to meaning -- Bazin's ontology -- The negating self -- Transcendental survival -- Reel time -- Temporal objectivities -- Self-constituting flux -- Internal time-consciousness -- Future expectation -- Bergson : movement and intermediate imagery -- Reelising memory -- Bridging gaps -- Walter Benjamin : the new realm of film consciousness -- Materialism and allegory -- Dialectical images -- Mechanical reproduction and aura -- Returning the gaze : aura transformed -- Benjamin and surrealism -- Distraction and innervation -- Deleuze and cinema -- Montage and movement-image -- Eisenstein montage -- Imaging thought process -- Affectivity and the interval -- Vertov and the machinic -- Liquid subjectivity -- Marking time -- Thinking otherwise -- Forks of time -- Aberrance and problem ideas -- The split self -- Time-out-of-joint -- Film events -- Outside of film.