The universe as metacinema -- Hitchcock's universe: Zizek and deleuze -- Metacinema and the cinematographic apparatus -- Camera consciousness and temporal confusion -- Material aspects of subjectivity -- Psychoanalysis and the monstrous flesh -- Affects and politics of the Spinozian body -- Plane of immanence: subjectivity and images of the flesh -- Cinema's politics of violence -- Violence and cinema of the body -- Missing people and fabulation -- Schizophrenia in contemporary hollywood -- Conceptual personae and aesthetic figures of becoming-womanthe philosopher meets Alice in wonderland -- Becoming-woman in feminism: Alice doesn't? -- Alice in cinematic wonderland -- Logic of sensations in becoming-animal -- Stories, sensations, and affection-images -- Becoming-child before becoming-animal -- Passive and active affects -- (De)territorializing forces of the sound machine -- Acoustic mirrors and fantasmatic structures -- Rhythm, the refrain and (de)territorialization -- The female voice: back on the throne? -- Cosmic forces: becoming in music -- Conclusion.