Claire Colebrook is Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One: Cinema, Thought and Time; 1.1 Deleuze's Cinema Books; 1.1.2 Technology; 1.1.3 Essences. 1.1.3 Space and time; 1.1.4 Bergson, Time and Life; Chapter 2: The Movement-Image; 2.1 The History of Time and Space and the History of Cinema; 2.2 The Movement-Image and Semiotics; 2.3 Styles of Sign; 2.4 The Whole of Movement; 2.5 Image and Life; 2.6 Becoming-Inhuman, Becoming Imperceptible; 2.7 The Deduction of the Movement-Image; 2.7.1 Firstness; 2.7.2 Affect; 2.7.3 From Movement-Image to Time-Image; Chapter Three: Art and Time; 3.1 Destruction of the sensory motor apparatus and the spiritual automaton; 3.2 Time and Money; Chapter Four: Art and History; 4.1 Monument; 4.2 Framing, Territorialisation and the Plane of Composition; Chapter Five: Politics and the Origin of Meaning; 5.1 Transcending Life and the Genesis of Sense; 5.2 Beyond Symbolic and Imaginary; 5.3 Shit and Money; 5.4 Exchange, Gift and Theft; 5.5 The Fiction of Mind; 5.6 Collective Investment and Group Fantasy; 5.7 The Time of Man; 5.8 The Intense Germinal Influx; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.