The Time-Image

Synopsis

Cinema 2: the time-image brings to completion gilles deleuze’s work on the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image. In cinema 1: the movement-image, deleuze proposed a new way to understand narrative cinema, based on henri bergson’s notion of the movement-image and c. S. Peirce’s classification of images and signs. In cinema 2, he explains why, since world war ii, time has come to dominate film: the fragment or solitary image, in supplanting narrative cinema’s rational development of events, illustrates this new significance of time.