Introduction : "From Human to Posthuman Cinema: Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali " - Human, Nonhuman, Antihuman, Transhuman. Posthuman: Concepts for Thought - Approaching Cinematic Forms Through Posthumanist Theory - Ray's Pather Panchali as Human Cinema - Ray's Pather Panchali as Posthuman Cinema - Summary of Chapters 1. "Posthuman Cinema: Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life" - Transcendental Empiricism and Posthuman Cinema - The Tree of Life : A Form of Life - Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism - Transcendental Empiricism and Life - Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life 2. "Encounters with the Anthropocene: Andrei Tarkovsky and Images of Life" - The Anthropocene and Posthuman Cinema - Stalker : Autopoietic Life - Fay's Eaarth - Cinematic Stratigraphy and Life - Mirror , Stalker , and Images of Life 3. "Bodies, Relations, Bodies: Wong Kar Wai and a Cinematic Posthuman Ontology" - Ontology and Posthuman Cinema - In the Mood for Love : A Posthuman Ontology - Sharp's Corporeality - Corporeality and Cinematic Bodies - In the Mood for Love , The Grandmaster , and Relations of Life 4. "The Materiality of the World: Mira Nair and a Cinema of Matter" - Materiality and Posthuman Cinema - The Namesake : A Life of Matter - Bennett's Vibrant Matter - Materiality and Life - Monsoon Wedding , The Namesake , and a Cinema of Matter 5. "Mystical Forms: Werner Herzog, Zacharias Kunuk, and Powers Beyond the Human" - The Mystical and Posthuman Cinema - Cave of Forgotten Dreams : Escaping Our Comprehension - Stengers' Cosmopolitics - Challenging Our Knowledges of Life - Atanarjuat , Cave of Forgotten Dreams , and a Cinematic World Perseveres Beyond Us Conclusion : "The Life of the Cinema: Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn " - Posthuman Cinema and Life Yet to Come - Goodbye, Dragon Inn : The Life of the Cinema - The Continuous Life of Images Index.