Cinema against Doublethink: Ethical Encounters with the Lost Pasts of World History: DAVID MARTIN-JONES, 2019 London and New York, Routledge pp. xvi + 242, illus., notes and index, £69 (cloth), £27.99 (paper).

Regardless, Martin-Jones' approach allows a formally and thematically diverse range of films to be discussed together. To describe this capacity for ethical encounters Martin-Jones turns to Gilles Deleuze's distinction between movement-image and time-image. To stabilize itself, Martin-Jones argues, the ruling world system needs to write its history in a manner that suppresses the memory of those people and cultures it destroys on its way to power. [Extracted from the article]