A Cinematic Mode of Existence
Perspectival Analytic of the Image
A Cinematic Mode of Existence
Perspectival Analytic of the Image
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A Cinematic Mode of Existence studies what images can do. Can the percepts and affects that cinematic images engender shape our eyes anew, by which we do not just see differently, but see different things and different worlds with many eyes?
Expanding on Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema, the book practices a new, perspectival analytic of the image honed to movement. In doing immanent analyses of numerous filmic works, the book blows wide open cinema's modern constitution, its all-too-narrow, anthropocentric operative logic, and the natural mode of perception underlying it. A spiritual automaton, an extraordinary machine for perspectives, a cosmopolitical medium for the more-than-human – cinema far exceeds what we have dogmatically held it for, and only in starting to see that can we learn to live with its images in ways that they do not just haunt and possess us.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Moving Images Beyond
Part I: ON PERCEPTS
1. What is a Perspective? In Castaing-Taylor and Paravel's Leviathan
2. The Nature of the Image in the Cantrills' The Room of Chromatic Mystery
Part II: ON AFFECTS
3. Movement, Affect, and Perspective in Yasujiro Ozu's Cinema
4. The Image of Nature in de Putter's It's Been a Lovely Day
Part III: ON IMAGINATIONS
5. Our Perspective, or What is Haunting? In the Work of Renzo Martens
6. The Spirit of the Gaze in the Work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
7. The Cosmopraxis of Imagination in Alexander, van Brummelen & de Haan's Stones Have Laws
8. If an Image is a Cosmos, Is the Camera then a Cosmic-eye? A Dialogue with Sebastian Wiedemann
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Product details
| Published | Apr 30 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9798216373131 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 50 bw illus |
| Series | Thinking Media |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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