Trust in the world

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Evident Experience of Existence -- 1 Gilles Deleuze and Belief in the World -- 2 A Struggle Against Oneself: Cinema as Technology of the Self -- 3 The Evidence of Film and the Presence of the World: Jean-Luc Nancy's Cinematic Ontology -- 4 Cinema as Human Art: Rescuing Aura in Gesture -- 5 Exhibiting or Presenting? Politics, Aesthetics, and Mysticism in Benjamin's and Deleuze's Concepts of Cinema -- 6 Made and Yet True: On the Aesthetics of the Presence of the Hero -- 7 An Art of Gesture: Returning Narrative and Movement to Images -- 8 It Is as if We Could Trust: Fiction and Aesthetics of the Political -- 9 All You Need Is Love: Cavell and the Comedy of Remarriage -- Literature -- Index of Concepts -- Index of Names