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Cinéma 2: L’image-temps

Gilles Deleuze

When perception no longer extends naturally into effective action, how can cinema present time directly? How does time released from movement transform memory, truth, the body, thought, and audiovisual relations?

L’Image-temps. Cinéma 2, 1985 French edition cover
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CORE QUESTION

When perception no longer extends naturally into effective action, how can cinema present time directly? How does time released from movement transform memory, truth, the body, thought, and audiovisual relations?

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CONTRIBUTION

Beginning with pure optical and sound situations, the book develops recollection and dream, the crystal-image, sheets of past and peaks of present, powers of the false, irrational cuts, cinemas of body and brain, and autonomous audiovisual structures. It reverses the relation between movement and time: forks, gaps, coexisting pasts, and incompossible presents organize the image directly, while movement becomes subordinate to time. Modern cinema thereby becomes a practice in which thought encounters its own powerlessness and renews belief in the world.

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READING ROUTE

Read the ten chapters in three blocks: Chapters 1–2 identify action's rupture and the new signs; Chapters 3–6 map recollection, crystals, past/present structures, and series of falsifiers; Chapters 7–10 track how cuts, bodily attitudes, sound, and readable images force thought. Test every concept against shot evidence; never substitute slowness, dreams, or nonlinearity for a time-image judgment.

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CONTINUE THROUGH THE ATLAS

Connect this book to concepts, chapters, films, and evidence

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EDITIONS & ACCESS

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LEGAL ACCESS

Purchase / library / controlled lending

The 1989 English edition translates the 1985 French work. The bibliography counts the work once.