How films can show us what we are dealing with. From the very beginning, cinema adopts many techniques from architecture, music, painting, theater, literature, and other arts – but it does not leave them as they are. Cinema can do what it does because it inverts and transforms what the other arts can achieve. In his new book, Martin Seel undertakes an analysis of this connection. In nine concise chapters, he explores the unique aesthetic potential of film and demonstrates, through concrete examples, how differently it can be realized. Stylistically brilliant, Martin Seel crafts a novel perspective on film and what it does to us in the cinema.