Download or read book The Intervals of Cinema written by Jacques Rancière and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancire relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing its images and its philosophy; and it rejects theatre, while also fulfilling theatre's dream. Built on these contradictions, the cinema is the real, material space in which one feels moved by the spectacle of shadows. Thus for Rancire, the cinema is the always disappointed dream of a language of images.