CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Films and Worlds

1. Worlds Within Worlds: Fictions, Narrative, and Aesthetic Enclosure

Part II. Worlds of Symbols

2. The Framework of Worlds: Symbolization, Meaning, and Art

3. Filmmaking as Symbolic Transformation

4. Ways of Cinematic World-Making

5. Representation, Exemplification, and Reflexivity: An Alternative Approach to the Symbolic Dimension of Cinematic Art

Part III. Worlds of Feeling

6. Forms of Feeling: Mapping Affect and Emotions in Films

7. Cineaesthetic World-Feeling and Immersion

Part IV. Worlds of Truth

8. Toward an Existential Hermeneutics of Film Worlds

Notes

Bibliography

Index