...This chapter investigates the relation of Alain Badiou's philosophy of cinema to that of Gilles Deleuze, reconsidering how space and time operate in cinema, whereby cinema figures as an art whose foremost concerns lie with disappearance and re-temporalisation. It highlights Badiou's recognition...

...This chapter presents a detailed critique of Alain Badiou's philosophical writings on cinema. It focuses on the ‘False Movements of Cinema’ chapter of his Handbook of Inaesthetics, his essay Philosophy and Cinema and ‘Cinema as a Democratic Emblem’. The chapter...