Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-262) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Problem of Cinema -- Transcendental Empiricism and the `Cahiers Axiom' -- The Monotony of Difference -- 2. The Interval as Disaster -- Terminus, or, Waiting for a Train -- (Film) History as Montage -- Cinema as an Anterior History of Violence -- 3. Movement, Duration and Difference -- The Three Theses on Movement -- The Temporalisation of Difference -- How to Escape the Dialectic -- 4. What Use is Cinema to Deleuze? -- The Necessary Illusions of Practical Life -- A Materialist Practice of Metaphysics -- Transcendental Empiricism as Cinematic Philosophy -- 5. Genesis and Deduction -- Cinematic Being -- Weak Reasoning, Perversity and Grasping at Threads -- From `Primitive' Cinema to Real Movement -- 6. The Thought of the World -- Cinematic Aberration and the `Great Kantian Reversal' -- The Classical Cinema as Totalisation -- Cinema as `Art of the Masses' -- 7. The Night, the Rain -- Film, Death (the `Reverse Proof') -- The Suspension of the World -- `The Image, the Remains' -- 8. Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy.