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Deleuze and Film

William Brown editor David Martin-Jones editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:30th Apr '12

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A wide-ranging collection of essays on the film-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze Deleuze and Film explores how different films from around the world 'think' about a range of topics like history, national identity, geopolitics, ethics, gender, genre, affect, religion, surveillance culture, digital aesthetics and the body. Mapping the global diversity of this cinematic thinking, this book greatly expands upon the range of films discussed in Deleuze's Cinema books. Key Features * Analyses several Asian films: including Japan's most famous monster movie Godzilla, the colourful Thai western Tears of the Black Tiger, the South Korean road movie Traces of Love, and the Iranian comedy The Lizard * Discusses American film noir, recent European art films such as Red Road and The Lives of Others and Hollywood CGI Blockbusters including Hellboy and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button * Includes a dedicated chapter on the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir * Studies a host of different directors, from Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Baz Luhrmann

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. -- 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.

ISBN: 9780748641208

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 390g

248 pages