Introduction -- Films and worlds. Worlds within worlds: fictions, narrative, and aesthetic enclosure -- Worlds of symbols. The framework of worlds: symbolization, meaning, and art -- Filmmaking as symbolic transformation -- Ways of cinematic world-making -- representation, exemplification and reflexivity: an alternative approach to the symbolic dimension of cinematic art -- Worlds of feeling. Forms of feeling: mapping affect and emotions in films -- Cineaesthetic world-feeling and immersion -- Worlds of truth. Toward an existential hermeneutics of film worlds