Deleuze and the cinemas of performance : powers of affection / Elena del Rio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Río, Elena del.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a unique reconsideration of the performing body that privileges the notion of affective force over the notion of visual form at the centre of former theories of spectacle and performativity. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the body, and on Deleuze-Spinoza's relevant concepts of affect and expression, Elena del Río examines a kind of cinema that she calls 'affective-performative'. The features of this cinema unfold via detailed and engaging discussions of the movements, gestures and speeds of the body in a variety of films by Douglas Sirk, Rainer W. Fassbinder, Sally

Contents:

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cinema and the Affective-Performative; 1. Animated Fetishes; 2. Choreographies of Affect; 3. Dancing Feminisms; 4. Kinesthetic Seductions; 5. Powers of the False; Conclusion: Everything is ""Yes""; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-227) and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5114-4

1-281-78589-X

9786611785895

0-7486-3526-2

OCLC:

476197832