About the Author

Pasi V�liaho is lecturer in film and screen studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Reviews

"A commanding and consummate study of art, philosophy, the human sciences, physics, and biology in the matrix of cinema at the turn of the twentieth century. Blending contemporary theory with close readings of the foundational writings of modernity, Väliaho shows how the autonomy of the movie-machine shapes the ways we believe we think and live today. It will be a point of reference for every student of cinema, consciousness, and perception."--Tom Conley, Harvard University