"Fascinating ... every word of Badiou's writing radiates with a pronounced sense of exuberance for cinema, and presents the convincing case that it is the liveliest of the seven arts." —Film International "Provides brilliant, in-depth analyses on the techniques, styles, and themes of several films." —Publishers Weekly "The chance to truly and fully understand the nature ... Read moreof cinema through the eyes of someone who is clearly one of its most passionate advocates." —Morning Star "Badiou's unfashionable militancy is sure to continue to generate a degree of mock not-this-again head-scratching from the guardians of sober academic scholarship in the humanities, as well as from whoever might be assigned to review Badiou in say, The New York Review of Books." —Los Angeles Review of Books "While a thorough reading of this book is an intellectual investment, I would highly recommend it, particularly to those interested in the pursuit of cultural renewal by artistic means." —Englewood Review of Books "There is an aphoristic concision to Badiou's thinking that is capable of producing moments of true enlightenment." —Review 31 "These rich and diverse pieces are all ostensibly concerned with cinema, but are ultimately far more profound than often their occasion would demand. Providing an important exploration of politics, esthetics, the visible, and cinema's relation to thinking and procedures of decision, this volume gives the reader of Badiou a sense of this major thinker's intellectual development. Spitzer's translation of this volume is a careful and meticulous rendering of Badiou's thought." —Claire Colebrook, Penn State University "Since the 1950s Badiou has written in excess of thirty essays on cinema. It is clear that film has been a constant companion in his articulation of art as a form of truth-making event, the creation of unworldly truths. This collection brings these writings together in English for the first time, allowing us to see just how important film is for Badiou’s philosophy of the event." —John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London Show Less