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This text continues the major reassessment of cinema begun in Deleuze's Cinema I: The Movement Image.In this volume, Deleuze is concerned with the representation of time in film and with the cinematic treatment of memory, thought and speech.

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In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (CH, Jan'87) Deleuze saw the cinema prior to WW II as essentially narrative in character, dedicated to developing images of movement. In Cinema 2: he perceives images of time being developed since the war to supplant those of motion and sees fragmentation and solitary images replacing the previous narrative emphasis. This volume is dedicated to pointing out, explaining, and exploring the theoretical implications of this change. Deleuze considers its beginning in neorealism and traces its early development briefly through the films of Rosselini, De Sica, Godard, Rivette, Bresson, Ozu, and Antonioni. Then, looking again at the work of C.S. Pierce and Henri Bergson in signs and images, as he had in Cinema 1, he relates these to questions of optical and sound image circuits and eventually to concepts of time crystals and sheets and to a number of other theoretical issues he sees being worked out in the films of Kubrick, Resnais, and Syberberg, among others. Although complex, this book is accessible and well worth reading. Level: upper-division and above. I. Deer University of South Florida