Beckett, Deleuze and the televisual event : peephole art / Colin Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Colin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Television adaptations--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Television adaptations--History and criticism.

Television adaptations.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Television adaptations.

Physical Description:

x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

An expressive dialogue between Gilles Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Samuel Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event-itself a simultaneous invention and erasure-and Beckett's attempts to create an unrepresentable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole. While focusing specifically on Film (1964), the television adaptations of dramatic works such as Play, Not I and What Where, as well as the made-for-TV production of Eh Joe, ... but the clouds..., Ghost Trio, Quad I & II and Nacht und Träume, this book is more than an exploration of Beckett's TV work through a specific Deleuzean filter. More importantly, it is also an opportunity to re-examine Deleuze's Cinema 1 and 2-specifically the affect-and time-images-through Beckett's specific audio-visual 'peephole'. Given Beckett's obvious compatibility with Kafka and minor literature, this study contextualizes his television work in relation to Deleuze's writings on cinema as whole and, by extension, the ontology and semiotics of film and televisual language. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Thinking the Unthinkable: Time, Cinema and the Incommensurable 13

2 Beyond Percept and Affect: Beckett's Film (1964) and Non-Human Becoming 41

3 From 'Dialoghorrhea' to Mental-Image: Comédie (1966), Not I (1977) and What Where (1986) 63

4 Matter and Memory: The Image as Impersonal Process in Eh Joe (1966), Ghost Trio (1977) and ...but the clouds... (1977) 107

5 How to Build a Desiring Machine: Quad I & II (1981) 154

6 Video-body, Video-brain: Nacht und Träume (1983) as Televisual Event 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-212) and index.

ISBN:

9781137014351

1137014350

OCLC:

795175360