Like images from the James Webb space telescope, Hannah Goodwin’s Stardust brings into sharp relief an entire universe of ideas from a century-long conversation between stargazing and cinema that were previously only known in fuzzy contours. A dazzling work of scholarship that mobilizes the most ambitious promises of cinema and cinema studies to give us perceptual and imaginative access to the cosmos in all their sublime beauty, mystery, and fragility across the registers of science, eschatology, aesthetics, and popular fantasy.