Colin Davis is Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

1. Introduction: Renoir Goes to the Cinema.- Interpreting images.- 2. But is it Art?: Heidegger and the (Moving) Image.- 3. Philosophy and Film (Again): From Ontology to Hermeneutics.- 4. Reading and Overreading Film.- Silent Renoir.- 5. The Woman Who Wasn't There: Catherine Hessling.- 6. The Missing Real: La Fille de l'eau and La Petite Marchande d'allumettes.- 7. The Colonial Other: Sur un air de Charleston and Le Bled.- 8. Traces of War: Erasing Memory in Tire au flanc..- 9. Conclusion.