Poetics of Cinema is a book series of film theory by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) consisting principally of lectures he gave in diverse locations between 1990 and 2009.

[1] In Poetics of Cinema 1: Miscellanies (1995), Ruiz outlines his rejection of John Howard Lawson's central conflict theory and makes a case for unique, enigmatic boredom in film.

In Poetics of Cinema 2 (2006), he addresses the notions of fascination and detachment with respect to the film-image.

In the third volume (published posthumously in Spanish in 2013) he takes on Sergei Eisenstein's writings and describes his own work on La Recta Provincia and Nucingen House.

I read them and I understand them more and more and it's his vision poetical but mostly political finally that matters more and more to my mind...