Janet Harbord is Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She is the author of several books on film and philosophies of the moving image, including Chris Marker: La Jetée (2009), The Evolution of Film (2006) and Film Cultures (2002). She is the recipient of grants from the AHRC, EPSRC and the Leverhulme Trust.

• Introduction 1 Ex-centric Cinema: An Archaeological Method2 Mute Cinema: Gesture and the Impression of Character3 Animal: Cinema as an Anthropological Machine4 Profaning the Cinematic: Children, Assistants, Ghosts5 Conditions of Cinematic Possibility: Repetition and Stoppage6 The Coming CommunityBibliographyIndex

Sparkling with ideas, provocative, and beautifully written, Harbord’s is a loving text that invites us not simply to consider the commodified toys that cinema offers up, but also to play with the other materials that accompany cinema, but which often are forgotten and/or left behind.

Janet Harbord is Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She is the author of several books on film and philosophies of the moving image, including Chris Marker: La Jetée (2009), The Evolution of Film (2006) and Film Cultures (2002). She is the recipient of grants from the AHRC, EPSRC and the Leverhulme Trust.

• Introduction 1 Ex-centric Cinema: An Archaeological Method2 Mute Cinema: Gesture and the Impression of Character3 Animal: Cinema as an Anthropological Machine4 Profaning the Cinematic: Children, Assistants, Ghosts5 Conditions of Cinematic Possibility: Repetition and Stoppage6 The Coming CommunityBibliographyIndex

Sparkling with ideas, provocative, and beautifully written, Harbord’s is a loving text that invites us not simply to consider the commodified toys that cinema offers up, but also to play with the other materials that accompany cinema, but which often are forgotten and/or left behind.

Janet Harbord is Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She is the author of several books on film and philosophies of the moving image, including Chris Marker: La Jetée (2009), The Evolution of Film (2006) and Film Cultures (2002). She is the recipient of grants from the AHRC, EPSRC and the Leverhulme Trust.

• Introduction 1 Ex-centric Cinema: An Archaeological Method2 Mute Cinema: Gesture and the Impression of Character3 Animal: Cinema as an Anthropological Machine4 Profaning the Cinematic: Children, Assistants, Ghosts5 Conditions of Cinematic Possibility: Repetition and Stoppage6 The Coming CommunityBibliographyIndex

Sparkling with ideas, provocative, and beautifully written, Harbord’s is a loving text that invites us not simply to consider the commodified toys that cinema offers up, but also to play with the other materials that accompany cinema, but which often are forgotten and/or left behind.