Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts

by Felicity Colman

Gilles Deleuze published two radical books on Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image . Engaging with a wide range of film styles, histories and theories, Deleuze's writings treat film as a new form of philosophy. This ciné-philosophy offers a startling new way of understanding the complexities of the moving image, its technical concerns and constraints as well as its psychological and political outcomes. Deleuze and Cinema presents a step-by-step guide to the key concepts behind Deleuze's revolutionary theory of the cinema. Exploring ideas through key directors and genres, Deleuze's method is illustrated with examples drawn from American, British, continental European, Russian and Asian cinema. Deleuze and C inema provides the first introductory guide to Deleuze's radical methodology for screen analysis. It will be invaluable for students and teachers of film theory, film history and film forms.

Genres: Philosophy, Film

192 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2011

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an alternative to the overview of Deleuze's cinema books that one finds in Ron Bogue's and Patricia Pister's well-known books, this book is a deep dive into Deleuze's cinema systems, with a mastery of the two Cinema books and the detailed conceptual array that Deleuze unleashes therein. By engaging with the different concepts developed by Deleuze, Colman focuses properly on the philosophical aspect of the Deleuzian cine-theory.