European film theory: from crypto-nationalism to trans-nationalism -- The aesthetics of race in European film theory -- Film as philosophy: a mission impossible? -- Platonic reconstruction and residual Kantianism in film theory -- Fabulation and contradiction: jacques ranciere on cinema -- The gaze of biocinema -- Between the ornament and the corpse: adolf loos and classical film theory -- Baroque dialectics or dialectical Baroque : Sergei Eisenstein in/on Mexico -- Innocence and ontology: the truthfulness of andre bazin -- From distraction to indeterminacy to distraction: kracauer and contemporary film realist discourse

1. Motion pictures -- Europe
2. Film criticism -- Europe
3. Europe -- In motion pictures