Deleuze's Cinema books : three introductions to the taxonomy of images / David Deamer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deamer, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. Cinéma.

Deleuze, Gilles.

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

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Cinéma (Deleuze, Gilles).

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Gilles Deleuze's two Cinema books create a myriad of philosophical concepts to explore films. This cineosis is like a Russian doll or a Chinese box - proliferating levels of regimes, domains, images and signs. Not only bewildering in number, Deleuze's writing procedures mean his exegesis is composed of paradoxes and silences. Three questions emerge: What are the underlying principles for the creation of these concepts? How many concepts are there? How might each be used in engaging with a film? Commentators have, wholly or in part, left these questions unanswered; instead focusing on the Cinema books place within Deleuze's wider philosophical project. This book is the first to fully respond to the three questions - explicating/unearthing the taxonomies; exploring every concept; and reading a film for each. It maps the Cinema books for newcomers to Deleuzian film studies and opens up new areas of enquiry for expert readers.

Contents:

Part 1 Unfolding the Cineosis

Section I First Introduction - Two Regimes of Images

1 Movement-images and time-images: Bergson, image and duration 5

2 Movement-images: Peirce, semiosis 16

3 Time-images: Deleuze, syntheses 41

4 Time-images and movement-images: Bergs on, duration and image 70

Section II Second Introduction - A Series of Images and Signs

1 Perception-images 77

2 Affection-images 82

3 Impulse-images (the nascent action-image) 87

4 Action-images (small form, action → situation) 92

5 Action-images (large form, situation → action) 97

6 Attraction-images (first reflection-image; sixth mental-image) 105

7 Inversion-images (second reflection-image; fifth mental-image) 110

8 Discourse-images (third reflection-image; fourth mental-image) 115

9 Dream-images (third mental-image) 122

10 Recollection-images (second mental-image) 127

11 Relation-images (first mental-image) 132

12 Opsigns and sonsigns 138

13 Hyalosigns 145

14 Chronosigns 151

15 Noosigns 157

16 Lectosigns 162

Afterword to Part One: the unfolded cineosis 172

Part 2 Enfolding the Cineosis

Section III Third Introduction - Cinematographies (1995-2015)

1 Le scaphandre et le papillon/The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Solid perception 179

2 Timecode. Liquid perception 182

3 Naqoyqatsi. Gaseous perception 186

4 Theeviravaathi/The Terrorist Icon 189

5 Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2 and Minions, Dividual 193

6 Le quattro volte/Four Times. Any-space-whatever 196

7 The Human Centipede (First Sequence), Symptom 201

8 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Fetish 205

9 Innocence. Originary World 209

10 Madeo/Mother. Index of lack 213

11 The Killer Inside Me. Index of equivocity 217

12 Ajami. Vector 221

13 Marxism today (prologue) and untitled. Milieu 224

14 Made in Dagenham. Binomial 228

15 Fish Tank. Imprint 234

16 Tian bian yi duo yun/The Wandering Cloud. Plastic figure 238

17 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Theatrical figure 241

18 Source Code. Mise en abyme 244

19 Four Lions. Figure of the sublime 248

20 Slackistan. Figure of enfeeblement 251

21 Un homme qui crie/A Screaming Man. Quotidian 255

22 Monsters. Limit of the large form action-image 258

23 Brooklyn's Finest. Limit of the small form action-image 261

24 Metro Manila. Limit of the action-image 264

25 Star Trek - First Contact. Rich dreams 268

26 The Machinist. Restrained dreams 270

27 Inception. Movement of world 272

28 El secreto de sus ojos/The Secret in Their Eyes. Strong destiny 275

29 White Material. Weak destiny 279

30 Triangle. Forking paths 282

31 Seven. Mark 286

32 Doctor Who - The Day of the Doctor. Demark 289

33 Buried. Symbol 294

34 Five. Opsigns and sonsigns 299

35 Black Swan. Mirrors face to face 305

36 Self Made. Limpid and opaque 309

37 Synecdoche, New York. Seed and environment 314

38 Loong Boonmee raleuk chat/Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Peaks of the present 317

39 Russkiy kovcheg/Russian Ark. Sheets of the past 320

40 Er ski si cheng ji/24 City. Powers of the false 325

41 I'm Not There. Bodies of attitude 328

42 Politist, adjectiv/Police, Adjective. Bodies of gest 330

43 Dogville. Cinema of the brain 335

44 Enter the Void. Lectosigns 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-349), filmography (pages 350-352) and index.

ISBN:

9781474407687

1474407684

9781474407670

1474407676

OCLC:

962483670