For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier’s intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator’s engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved ever since their publication in French in 1969.

Contributions by: Dudley Andrew, Vivian Sobchack , Marie-Aude Lous Baronian, Christian Ferencz, Robert Sinnerbrink, Kate Ince, Guido Kirsten, Victor Fan, Florian Sprenger, Jennifer Barket, Vinzenz Hediger