Cinema 1 is a revolutionary work in the theory of cinema and begins Deleuze's major reassessment of film, concluded in Cinema 2. In it, Deleuze identifies three distinct principal types of 'image movement' and draws upon diverse examples from the work of such major filmmakers as Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes and Altman..... Gilles Deleuze was a key figure in poststructuralism. One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, his work still sets the agenda for contemporary philosophy.....'One day, this century will be known as Deleuzian' - Michel Foucault