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Why does Gilles Deleuze write about the cinema to address specific philosophical problems? Deleuze turns to the cinema precisely because its formal resources enable it to 'think' the relation between movement and duration in ways that philosophy cannot. Allan James Thomas unpacks the nature of the philosophical problems that Deleuze turns to the cinema to resolve and shows how resources of the cinema enable him to do so where philosophy alone cannot. He offers new insights into the conceptual underpinnings both of the Cinema books themselves and of the trajectory of Deleuzian philosophy.

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Author:   Allan James Thomas (Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781474432795

ISBN 10:   1474432794
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   27 March 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements * CH 1 Introduction: The Problem of Cinema * A 1.1 Transcendental Empiricism and the ‘Cahiers Axiom’ * A 1.2 The Monotony of Difference * Notes to Chapter 1 * CH 2. The Interval as Disaster * A 2.1 Terminus, or, Waiting for a Train * A 2.2 (Film) History as Montage * A 2.3 Cinema as an Anterior History of Violence * Notes to Chapter 2 * CH 3. Movement, Duration and Difference * A 3.1 The Three Theses on Movement * A 3.2 The Temporalisation of Difference * A 3.3 How to Escape the Dialectic * Notes to Chapter 3 * CH 4. What Use is Cinema to Deleuze? * A 4.1 The Necessary Illusions of Practical Life * A 4.2 A Materialist Practice of Metaphysics * A 4.3 Transcendental Empiricism as Cinematic Philosophy * Notes to Chapter 4 * CH 5. Genesis and Deduction * A 5.1 Cinematic Being * A 5.2 Weak Reasoning, Perversity and Grasping at Threads * A 5.3 From ‘Primitive’ Cinema to Real Movement * Notes to Chapter 5 * CH 6. The Thought of the World * A 6.1 Cinematic Aberration and the ‘Great Kantian Reversal’ * A 6.2 The Classical Cinema as Totalisation * A 6.3 Cinema as ‘Art of the Masses’ * Notes to Chapter 6 * CH 7. The Night, the Rain * A 7.1 Film, Death (the ‘Reverse Proof’) * A 7.2 The Suspension of the World * A 7.3 ‘The Image, the Remains’ * Notes to Chapter 7 * CH 8. Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy * Notes to Chapter 8 * MH List of Works Cited *

Reviews

"The book is compelling and lucid and it will interest students and scholars of film theory as well as those studying Continental philosophy or Deleuze in general. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.--D. W Rothermel, California State University, Chico ""Choice"" After D.N. Rodowick, Ronald Bogue, Paola Marrati, David Deamer, David Martin-Jones and Pierre Montebello, it might have been imagined that there was no need for a further monograph on Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books. Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World proves any such supposition wrong. Indeed, it forced me to think and rethink at every turn. [...] [an] indispensable contribution this important book makes to any (re)thinking of these and many other matters.--Robert Lapsley ""Film-Philosophy"" Allan James Thomas' superb book is a wonderfully detailed analysis of Deleuze's work on the cinema, but it is also a profound work of philosophy. For Deleuze, great filmmakers are also great thinkers who happen to think in terms of images rather than concepts. By reading Deleuze through the lens of writers as diverse as Bergson, Blanchot, Badiou, and Barradori, Thomas's book is a wide-ranging exploration of the Deleuzian thesis that cinema must be understood, above all, as an act of thinking.-- ""Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University"""

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Allan James Thomas is Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.

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