Jacques Ranciere is Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Paris-VIII (St. Denis). His translated works include: The Politics of Aesthetics: The Limits of Art and Politics, The Philosopher and his Poor, Dis-agreement: Politics and Philosophy, and The Names of History. Translated from the French by Emiliano Battista, a doctoral student in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven and a free-lance translator.

Prologue: A Thwarted Fable Part I: FABLES OF THE VISIBLE 1. Between the age of the theatre and the television age 2. Eisenstein's Madness 3. A Silent Tartuffe 4. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages 5. The Child Director Part II: CLASSICAL NARRATIVE, ROMANTIC NARRATIVE 6. Some Things To Do: The Poetics of Anthony Mann 7. The Missing Shot: The Poetics of Nicholas Ray Part III: IF THERE IS A CINEMATOGRAPHIC MODERNITY 8. From One Image to Another? Deleuze and the Ages of Cinema 9. Falling Bodies: Rossellini's Physics 10. The Red of La Chinoise: Godard's Politics Part IV: FABLES OF THE CINEMA, (HI)STORIES OF A CENTURY 11. Documentary Fiction: Marker and the Fiction of Memory 12. A Fable Without a Moral: Godard, Cinema, (Hi)stories List of Films Sources and Acknowledgments