Overview
Film theory has for so long been concerned with sociological, empirical and psychoanalytic approaches that its place within our aesthetic sensibilities seems to have been forgotten.Deleuze and Cinema aims to bring back debates about film as an art form - as part of an aesthetic process which incorporates the 'bodies' of our material, technological and molecular worlds. While much film theory has looked at desire in terms of (visual and spectator) pleasure, Barbara Kennedy suggests, in this provocative new study, that these different perceptions of 'body' are responsible, as well as the brain/mind, for the ways in which visual elements of colour, movement, rhythm and sensation are acquired within, through and beyond our consciousness.Film is visceral, vital and dynamic, and wider frameworks of understanding are needed to explain these aesthetic resonances. Deleuze and Cinema asks: how can we begin to understand the cinematic experience as one of material capture, processuality and movement - as opposed to a spectator/text relationship - where desire and pleasure are part of a complex 'aesthetics of sensation'?Through discussions of Orlando, The English Patient, Romeo and Juliet, Strange Days and Leon the book offers a new and creative collusion between Deleuzian philosophy - specifically Deleuze's ideas about desire, pleasure, sensation, affect and 'becoming-woman' - and contemporary film studies.
Full Product Details
Author: Barbara Kennedy (Senior Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies, University of Staffordshire)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.539kg
ISBN: 9780748611348
ISBN 10: 0748611347
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 December 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Kennedy treats the artistry of cinema in a fresh and engaging way. This is a superb foray into the emergent area of Deleuzian inspired film-philosophy. -- Scope Kennedy treats the artistry of cinema in a fresh and engaging way. This is a superb foray into the emergent area of Deleuzian inspired film-philosophy.
Kennedy treats the artistry of cinema in a fresh and engaging way. This is a superb foray into the emergent area of Deleuzian inspired film-philosophy. -- Scope
Author Information
Barbara Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Staffordshire.
