Cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière looks at cinematic art in comparison to its corollary forms in literature and theatre. From literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing literature’s images and philosophy; and film rejects theatre, while also fulfilling theatre’s dream.
Built on these contradictions, the cinema is the real, material space in which one is moved by the spectacle of shadows. Thus, for Rancière, film is the perpetually disappointed dream of a language of images.
- ISBN10 1322190801
- ISBN13 9781322190808
- Publish Date 1 January 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Verso
- Format eBook
- Language English