Cinema

"Fascinating ... every word of Badiou's writing radiates with a pronounced sense of exuberance for cinema, and presents the convincing case that it is the liveliest of the seven arts." Film International "Provides brilliant, in-depth analyses on the techniques, styles, and themes of several films." Publishers Weekly "The chance to truly and fully understand the nature of cinema through the eyes of someone who is clearly one of its most passionate advocates." Morning Star "These rich and diverse pieces are all ostensibly concerned with cinema, but are ultimately far more profound than often their occasion would demand. Providing an important exploration of politics, esthetics, the visible, and cinema's relation to thinking and procedures of decision, this volume gives the reader of Badiou a sense of this major thinker's intellectual development. Spitzer's translation of this volume is a careful and meticulous rendering of Badiou's thought." Claire Colebrook, Penn State University "Since the 1950s Badiou has written in excess of thirty essays on cinema. It is clear that film has been a constant companion in his articulation of art as a form of truth-making event, the creation of unworldly truths. This collection brings these writings together in English for the first time, allowing us to see just how important film is for Badiou's philosophy of the event." John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London