Argument
Rancière uses cinematic fable and the aesthetic regime to challenge a neat 1945 divide, recasting Deleuze’s categories as tendencies, tensions, and recurring formal choices. It is a central dispute over the history implied by the time-image.
Core question
Is the break between movement-image and time-image a periodization of film history, or two powers that continually coexist within images?
Argument structure
Rancière's challenge to Deleuze concerns the crisis of the action-image and the periodization of film history. Movement relations and temporal forms within particular films can cross both regimes, so a single historical rupture cannot fully explain the tension between narrative and image.
Related concepts, chapters, and films
Original editions, translations, and access
La Fable cinématographique
French · Éditions du Seuil · 2001
ISBN 9782020510530Original edition details- Film FablesBerg · 2006 · Trans. Emiliano Battista
- 《電影寓言》典藏藝術家庭 · 2025 · Trans. 謝淳清
- 《电影寓言》上海文艺出版社 · 2026 · Trans. 钟立