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Deleuze Connections
Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation
Now available in paperback, this provocative study forges new and creative connections between Deleuzian philosophy and contemporary film studies.When watching films we respond to the visual elements of colour, movement, rhythm and sensation through our bodies as well as our minds. Barbara Kennedy shows how we can understand this response as an 'aesthetics of sensation', which in turn can begin to explain the experience of the spectator, who feels the film as an event.Through discussions of Orlando , The English Patient , Romeo and Juliet , Strange Days and Leon this subtle and powerful book reintroduces debates about film as an art form and the place of film theory within our aesthetic sensibilities.
224 pages, Paperback
First published February 22, 2001
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June 23, 2012
Recently, I have been working and writing considerably on the subject of sensation and ambience (in a broader sense) and this book amongst many others provided some inspirational insights on interaction, interfaces, "body", sensibility, intensity, the interplay of the senses, differential relations, desire, assemblage, etc. etc. and the whole concept of being is in the sensation, just as I believe that ambience is something within one.
I have been reading, re-reading and referring to this book for about 5 years now and it still inspires me to
think through my own thoughts on sensation. My partner is a PhD Film Studies major, so I am exposed to such works daily, however, my interest in this work is application in experiential entertainment and marketing.
Barbara Kennedy's insights and critiques are commendable, but one should also read Deleuze "Cinema I" and "Cinema II", Deleuze's "Francis Bacon: Logique de la Sensation", Daniel Smith's "Deleuze Theory of sensation", Ian Buchanan's Deleuzism...
I have been reading, re-reading and referring to this book for about 5 years now and it still inspires me to
think through my own thoughts on sensation. My partner is a PhD Film Studies major, so I am exposed to such works daily, however, my interest in this work is application in experiential entertainment and marketing.
Barbara Kennedy's insights and critiques are commendable, but one should also read Deleuze "Cinema I" and "Cinema II", Deleuze's "Francis Bacon: Logique de la Sensation", Daniel Smith's "Deleuze Theory of sensation", Ian Buchanan's Deleuzism...
June 1, 2016
Wonderful explication of Deleuze's theories of and for film, as well as a necessary intervention on politics and affect.
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