Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.William Rothman has long been considered one of the seminal figures in the field of filmphilosophy. From his landmark book Hitchcock The Murderous Gaze now in its second edition to the essays collected here in Tuitions and Intuitions Rothman has been guided by two intuitions first that his kind of film criticism is philosophy and second that such a marriage of criticism and philosophy has an essential part to play in the serious study of film. In this book he aspires borrowing a formulation from Emerson to pay the tuition for these intuitions.Thoughtful philosophically sophisticated and provocative the essays included here address a wide range of films including classical Hollywood movies the work of auteur directors like Alfred Hitchcock George Cukor Yasujiro Ozu and Woody Allen performances by John Barrymore and James Stewart unconventional works by Jean Genet Chantal Akerman Terrence Malick and the Dardenne brothers the television series Justified and documentaries by Jean Rouch Ross McElwee and Robert Gardner.