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Book SynopsisEngages Deleuze's philosophy with a range of popular films and explores the degree to which a film's popularity impacts upon its ability to 'think' (in the manner that Deleuze described in relation to examples of the art of film in his Cinema books), and the global diversity of this cinematic 'thinking' in popular international film.
Trade ReviewDeleuze and Film presents a rich collection of essays that takes Deleuze's work on cinema out of its dominant Eurocentric corpus. Taking us on an inspiring world tour of film analysis and creative conceptual thinking, this book testifies to the continuing productive generosity of Deleuze's film-philosophy, and includes a dynamic range and depth of film scholarship. -- Patricia Pisters, Professor of Media and Film Studies, University of Amsterdam This book testifies to the continuing vitality of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema volumes: they still offer resources to film scholars and theorists today even when they are working on the sorts of films that Deleuze himself never commented on. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University Deleuze and Film presents a rich collection of essays that takes Deleuze's work on cinema out of its dominant Eurocentric corpus. Taking us on an inspiring world tour of film analysis and creative conceptual thinking, this book testifies to the continuing productive generosity of Deleuze's film-philosophy, and includes a dynamic range and depth of film scholarship. This book testifies to the continuing vitality of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema volumes: they still offer resources to film scholars and theorists today even when they are working on the sorts of films that Deleuze himself never commented on.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Deleuze's World Tour of Cinema, David Martin-Jones and William Brown; 1. An Imprint of Godzilla: Deleuze, the Action-Image and Universal History, David Deamer; 2. Philosophy, Politics and Homage in Tears of the Black Tiger, Damian Sutton; 3. Time-Images in Traces of Love: Repackaging South Korea's Traumatic National History for Tourism, David Martin-Jones; 4. The Rebirth of the World: Cinema According to Baz Luhrmann, Richard Rushton; 5. 'There as many paths to the time-image as there are films in the world': Deleuze and The Lizard, William Brown; 6. In Search of Lost Reality: Waltzing with Bashir, Markos Hadjioannou; 7. The Schizoanalysis of European Surveillance Films, Serazer Pekerman; 8. Fictions of the Imagination: Habit, Genre and the Powers of the False, Amy Herzog; 9. Feminine Energies, or the Outside of Noir, Elena del Rio; 10. The Daemons of Unplumbed Space: Mixing the Planes in Hellboy, Anna Powell; 11. Digitalising Deleuze: The Curious Case of the Digital Human Assemblage, or What Can a Digital Body Do?, David H. Fleming; 12. The Surface of the Object: Quasi-Interfaces and Immanent Virtuality, Seung-hoon Jeong; Notes on Contributors; Index.
