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The advent of the cinema radically altered our comprehension of
time, space, and reality. With his experience as a pioneering
avant-garde filmmaker, Jean Epstein uses the universes created by
the cinematograph to deconstruct our understanding of how time and
space, reality and unreality, continuity and discontinuity,
determinism and randomness function both inside and outside the
cinema. Time, he says, should be regarded as the first, not the
fourth, dimension--and the cinematograph allows us, for the first
time, to manipulate it in directions and speeds of our
choosing.
The theoretical work of Jean Epstein greatly influenced later
generations of cinema philosophers, notably Gilles Deleuze and
Jacques Ranciere, but the bulk of his work remains unpublished.
"The Intelligence of a Machine," his first major title published in
English, is one of the earliest philosophies of cinema.
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