Books like Cinema 1: The Movement-Image

This is a brilliant analysis of how the history of film impacted its form, its style and the technological advancements of it. Deleuze argues that before WW II cinema can best be defined by looking at how directors attempted to capture movement and how that movement is related to time. As a a result of these developments, Deleuze argues that cinema is the logical progression in the development of human thought (philosophy) so that cinema represents the ways in which the mind, body, and time constantly relate and react to form some type of human experience. Deleuze displays a passion for abstract ideas and a refined sense of the technical qualities of film and how those qualities may be used to make films. For anyone interested in thinking more deeply about cinema and philosophy this is a must read.