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Book SynopsisOffers a feminist introduction to Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema that proposes a way of thinking about the cinematic viewing experience by exploring it as a bodily and emotional experience. This book introduces Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the assemblage and uses it to understand the relationship between film and viewer.
Trade ReviewA highly readable feminist introduction to Deleuze's Cinema volumes by foregrounding the bodily and affective nature of the cinematic viewing experience ... Rizzo's book is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to both Deleuze and feminist film studies -- Sergey Toymentsey * Film Criticism *
[An] accessible and interesting book ... [
Deleuze and Film] provides a compelling method for identifying films that challenge static gender categories. As such, the book will doubtless be a useful tool for feminist researchers wanting to pursue questions of spectatorship -- Janice Loreck, Monash University, Australia * New Review of Film and Television Studies *
‘Both an accessible introduction to Deleuze's cinema philosophy and a major advance in feminist film theory, this is a tour de force of lucid and creative thought. Rizzo's focus on the body of the viewer provides a provocative reconfiguration of Deleuze's cinematic taxonomy while opening lines of inquiry beyond the psychoanalytic models and theories of spectatorship currently dominant in film theory. An essential contribution to the field.' -- Ronald Bogue, Distinguished Research Professor at University of Georgia, USA and author of Deleuze on Cinema (Routledge)
‘In Deleuze and Film: A Feminist IntroductionTeresa Rizzo presents us with a ‘third Deleuze', that is a Deleuze who is a cineaste and a feminist. In this way we are given not only a new and rich introduction to Deleuze's thinking and writing on film, but also a provocative rethinking of his work from the perspectives of gender and film-making. This is an important intervention into the growing body of work on the intersection between Deleuze and cinema.' -- Ian Buchanan, Editor of Deleuze Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Transcendental Subject; 2. Re-thinking Representation: New Lines of Thought in Feminist Philosophy; 3. Cinematic Assemblages: An Ethological Approach to Film-viewing; 4. The Slasher Film: A Deleuzian Feminist Analysis; 5. The Alien Series: Alien-Becomings, Human-Becomings; 6. The Molecular Poetics of the Assemblage: Before Night Falls; Conclusion: A Feminist Cinematic Assemblage; Bibliography; Index.
