This collective book is the first reference work about the philosophy of film of Stanley Cavell, American Harvard philosopher (1926-2018) who was the first to teach cinema in a university philosophy department (20 years before Deleuze).

This book has precedence and an audience in visual arts, critical studies, visual studies and esthetics but also draws on a variety of interdisciplinary texts and topics across the humanities, in literature, poetry and philosophy making it interesting to a wider audience.