Cinema by Badiou, Alain -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COVER DEDICATION TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD 1 “CINEMA HAS GIVEN ME SO MUCH” 2 CINEMATIC CULTURE 3 REVISIONIST CINEMA

What does the old bourgeoisie show? The new bourgeoisie at work The revisionists’ “people” What direction of attack?

4 ART AND ITS CRITICISM

The proletariat, a barbaric class The proletariat, a universal class The present times The six criteria of progressivism The constraints of the subject The seventh principle: The law of forms

5 THE SUICIDE OF GRACE 6 A MAN WHO NEVER GIVES IN 7 IS THE ORIENT AN OBJECT FOR THE WESTERN CONSCIENCE?

Follow-up addendum

8 REFERENCE POINTS FOR CINEMA’S SECOND MODERNITY 9 THE DEMY AFFAIR 10 SWITZERLAND: CINEMA AS INTERPRETATION 11 INTERRUPTED NOTES ON THE FRENCH COMEDY FILM 12 Y A TELLEMENT DE PAYS POUR ALLER

The Jews in the Arabs’ place The lovers of the place Mouths from the South

13 RESTORING MEANING TO DEATH AND CHANCE 14 A PRIVATE INDUSTRY, CINEMA IS ALSO A PRIVATE SPECTACLE 15 THE FALSE MOVEMENTS OF CINEMA 16 CAN A FILM BE SPOKEN ABOUT? 17 NOTES ON THE LAST LAUGH (DER LETZE MANN) 18 “THINKING THE EMERGENCE OF THE EVENT” 19 THE DIVINE COMEDY AND THE CONVENT 20 SURPLUS SEEING 21 CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CURRENT STATE OF CINEMA AND ON THE WAYS OF THINKING THIS STATE WITHOUT HAVING TO CONCLUDE THAT CINEMA IS DEAD OR DYING

On the notion of “the situation of cinema” Four examples A thesis and its consequences Exceptions Formal operators and dominant motifs Cinema and the other arts A general hypothesis

22 THE CINEMATIC CAPTURE OF THE SEXES 23 AN UNQUALIFIED AFFIRMATION OF CINEMA’S ENDURING POWER 24 PASSION, JEAN-LUC GODARD 25 “SAY YES TO LOVE, OR ELSE BE LONELY”

Unity and multiplicity Father and son Between neo-classical and baroque Confession Humanity is love

26 DIALECTICS OF THE FABLE 27 CINEMA AS PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENTATION

Cinema is a philosophical situation What is a mass art? The five ways of thinking cinema From the question of time to the question of metaphysics: a round trip via love Cinema and the invention of new syntheses A Tribute to Gilles Deleuze Cinema, an absolutely impure art

28 ON CINEMA AS A DEMOCRATIC EMBLEM 29 THE END OF A BEGINNING

Gauchisme On the wane Allegory The new, on what conditions?

30 THE DIMENSIONS OF ART 31 THE PERFECTION OF THE WORLD, IMPROBABLE YET POSSIBLE NOTES