Abstract:

David Martin-Jones, in his book “Cinema Against Doublethink: Ethical Encounters with the Lost Pasts of World History”, discusses the cinema's power to reveal the lost, forgotten, erased, unrecorded or even eradicated histories. Martin-Jones consults two primary conceptual references in his analysis: The first is Enrique Dussel's 'transmodern ethics', and the other is Gilles Deleuze’s 'time-image'. Through these concepts, the author explains how doublethink works and, illustrates how cinema reveals the doublethink throughout history. The book's main idea is quite transparent: to reconsider and criticise the Eurocentric way of looking at the world history we assume that we know via utilising cinema's time-images. Martin-Jones shows us a new path by considering history with Dusselian ethics and Deleuze's time-images in cinema and discussing the ‘world of cinema’ with his unique taxonomy. Through this taxonomy, this work may offer new methods for film studies and historiography.