Presented as part of this special issue of Deleuze Studies is the complete text of Daniela Angelucci’s book . Translated by Sarin Marchetti, takes up Deleuze’s idea that the true objects of the theory of cinema are the concepts that cinema generates when understood as a practice of images. In this sense, philosophy alone is able, as Deleuze argued, to ‘constitute the concepts of cinema itself’. is both a significant exploration of some of Deleuze’s key concepts, as well as an excellent introduction to Deleuze’s books, aiming to avoid, as Deleuze himself once claimed, a double reproach: namely, both excessive erudition –which makes the reading complicated and tedious– and exaggerated familiarity.