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The essays comprising this book are perpassed by an idea which bestows unity to the texts and launches the terms to lead to regarding the contemporary cinema as a sole operation-aesthetic and political – which amply defines the place the reflection on the cinematographic image should set now. This place, which amply comprises that of art criticism, needs, according to Giulio Carlo Argan, to be the one of a struggle for an "intrinsic 'politicity' of culture", a task taken up in its radicality. Divided into three parts, the Existential Cinema, the Structural Cinema and the Brazilian Contemporary Cinema, organized around specific elements in common which justify their periodization, Essays on the Cinema of the Simulacre places in circulation the themes, concepts and aesthetic ruptures perpetrated by the cinema images themselves and which necessarily relate with the other practices: "It is by the interference of several practices that things are made, the beings, the images, the concepts, all kinds of happenings, states Deleuze on the theory of the cinema.

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