Gilles Deleuze: Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1985–) [FR, ES, EN, RU]

23 July 2012, dusan

Cinema 2: The Time-Image brings to completion Gilles Deleuze’s work on the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Deleuze proposed a new way to understand narrative cinema, based on Henri Bergson’s notion of the movement-image and C. S. Peirce’s classification of images and signs. In Cinema 2, he explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film: the fragment or solitary image, in supplanting narrative cinema’s rational development of events, illustrates this new significance of time.

Deleuze ascribes this shift to the condition of postwar Europe: the situations and spaces “we no longer know how to describe”—buildings deserted but inhabited, cities undergoing demolition or reconstruction—and the new race of characters who emerged from this rubble, mutants, who “saw rather than acted.” Deleuze discusses the films of Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Antonioni, Pasolini, Rohmer, Ophuls, and many others, suggesting that contemporary cinema, far from being dead, is only beginning to find new ways to capture time in the image.

Publisher Minuit, Paris, 1985
379 pages

English edition
Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1989
ISBN 0816616779, 9780816616770
364 pages

Publisher (EN)

Cinéma 2. L’Image-temps (French, 1985; added 2015-7-17)
Estudios sobre cine 2: La imagen-tiempo (Spanish, trans. Irene Agoff, 1987)
Cinema 2: The Time-Image (English, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta, 1989)
Кино: Образ-движение (Russian, trans. Олег Аронсон, 2004, updated on 2013-9-26)

See also Volume 1


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