Cinema 2: The Time-Image
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Cinema 2: The Time-Image

by Gilles Deleuze

Philosophy with a jump cut.

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you think deeply about how film constructs time and reality and want the hardest possible framework for that

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Deleuze’s Cinema 2: The Time-Image is not a book you read — it’s one you surrender to. In this dense, dazzling sequel to Cinema 1, he maps the philosophical shift from movement to time — from classical storytelling to the fractured, dreamlike cinema of the postwar world. Here, images no longer serve action; they think. It’s a work of theory as cinema itself: elliptical, radical, and strangely beautiful in its resistance to simplification.

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