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Cinéma 1: L’image-mouvement

Gilles Deleuze

How does cinema present movement directly? How does the interval introduced by a living centre differentiate one universe of images into perception, affection, and action?

L’Image-mouvement. Cinéma 1, 1983 French edition cover
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CORE QUESTION

How does cinema present movement directly? How does the interval introduced by a living centre differentiate one universe of images into perception, affection, and action?

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CONTRIBUTION

Deleuze joins Bergson's matter-image, formal analysis, and Peircean semiotics into a genetic taxonomy. Frame, shot, and montage organize changes in an open whole, while perception-, affection-, impulse-, action-, reflection-, and relation-images specify different functions of movement. Time appears mainly indirectly through movement and montage, and the final crisis of action already opens the passage to Cinema 2.

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READING ROUTE

Begin with Chapters 1–3 and secure the ontological line from movement to mobile section to open whole. Then follow the taxonomy through perception, affection, impulse, action, reflection, and relation. For each image type, diagram input, interval, and output in one concrete shot. Close-read Chapter 12, identify each symptom of the action-image's crisis, and only then move into Cinema 2.

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