Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1 Rancière and the Disciplines: An Introduction to Rancière before Film Studies 1
5. 2 What Does It Mean to Call Film an Art? 20
6. 3 After the Passage of the Beast: ‘False Documentary’ Aspirations, Acousmatic Complications 34
7. 4 The Spectator without Qualities 53
8. 5 Memories of Modernism: Jacques Rancière, Chris Marker and the Image of Modernism 83
9. 6 Aesthetic Irruptions: Politics of Perception in Alex de la Iglesia’s La Comunidad 99
10. 7 Inhuman Spectatorship 113
11. 8 Cinemarxis: Rancière and Godard 133
12. 9 Jacques Rancière’s Animated Vertigo; or, How to be Specific about Medium 149
13. 10 The Medium Is Not the Message: Rancière, Eschatology and the End of Cinema 169
14. 11 Remarks by Way of a Postface 185
15. Contributors 194
16. Bibliography 198
17. Index 212