The Overlook: On Patrick Keiller’s The View from The Train Daniele Rugo March 2014 Book Reviews An island is always an uncomfortable entity, for there the struggle between earth and water is simply contained, never entirely over. In one of many reflections on territorial matters Gilles Deleuze writes ‘tha...
A School for Everyone. Alain Badiou’s Cinema Daniele Rugo September 2013 Book Reviews In the interview that opens the volume of Alain Badiou’s contributions to the philosophical exploration of cinema, the philosopher says “the cinema has always been the subject of everyday conversations and that...
To Sign One’s Life (With Cinema) Francesco Rosi, Giuseppe Tornatore. Io lo Chiamo Cinematografo. Daniele Rugo March 2013 Book Reviews In the midst of one of his conversations with fellow director Giuseppe Tornatore, Francesco Rosi interrupts his own argument and says: ‘You should have called this book A life, because it is a life I am narrati...
The logic of the unauthorized lover:Jacques Rancière’s Les écarts du cinema Daniele Rugo June 2012 Book Reviews Cinephilia – the very specific love inspired by cinema – has been repeatedly declared deceased. However, whether one takes cinephilia as a historical phenomenon now outshined, or asserts that the magic power of...
