The matrix of visual culture : working with Deleuze in film theory / Patricia Pisters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pisters, Patricia.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Film theory.

Physical Description:

vi, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are "Strange Days," "Fight Club," and "Dancer in the Dark,"

Contents:

The universe as metacinema

Hitchcock's universe: Zizek and deleuze

Metacinema and the cinematographic apparatus

Camera consciousness and temporal confusion

Material aspects of subjectivity

Psychoanalysis and the monstrous flesh

Affects and politics of the Spinozian body

Plane of immanence: subjectivity and images of the flesh

Cinema's politics of violence

Violence and cinema of the body

Missing people and fabulation

Schizophrenia in contemporary hollywood

Conceptual personae and aesthetic figures of becoming-womanthe philosopher meets Alice in wonderland

Becoming-woman in feminism: Alice doesn't?

Alice in cinematic wonderland

Logic of sensations in becoming-animal

Stories, sensations, and affection-images

Becoming-child before becoming-animal

Passive and active affects

(De)territorializing forces of the sound machine

Acoustic mirrors and fantasmatic structures

Rhythm, the refrain and (de)territorialization

The female voice: back on the throne?

Cosmic forces: becoming in music

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-296), filmography and index.

ISBN:

0804740275

0804740283

OCLC:

50676348