A Cinematic Mode of Existence
Perspectival Analytic of the Image
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2026
304 pages
979-8-216-37312-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 bw illus
ISBN-13
979-8-216-37312-4 (9798216373124)
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05/2026
Bloomsbury Academic
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Person
Halbe Hessel Kuipers is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Content
Preface: Cinema Today
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
