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Author:   Cristóbal Escobar (Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of Melbourne)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781399517546

ISBN 10:   1399517546
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   29 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction Section One: Re-thinking Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy Chapter One. Towards the Intensification of the Cinema Chapter Two. Luis Buñuel’s Nomadic Vision: Departures from an Originary World Chapter Three. Human Infancy and the Language of Beginnings: The Wild Child and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Chapter Four. In Between Modernities and the Contemporaneous Section Two: The Politics and Poetics of the Intensive-Image in Contemporary Cinema Chapter Five. Resistance in The Lobster: Mapping an Intensive-Image in Contemporary Popular Film Chapter Six. Zama and the Method of Dramatization: From Di Benedetto’s Novel to Martel’s Film Chapter Seven. What do Animals Teach Us About Intensity? On Sweetgrass and SEL’s Bodily Praxis Conclusion. The Passion of Intensity Postscript Bibliography

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Many ""movement-image"" films that have been thrust off the Deleuzian map contain diffuse flows and asynchronous intensities that expand like activated yeast. Escobar recognizes the creative power of these moments, identifying, with clear argument and acute analysis, a line of intensity that traverses all cinema.--Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University Gilles Deleuze's monumental cinema books privileged properties of movement and time, differentiating the classical from the modern. Cristóbal Escobar respectfully re-opens Deleuze's books in order to emphasize a term that cuts across and unifies all these categories: intensity. His contribution is brilliant and radical, leading us to experience films anew.--Adrian Martin, Film Critic, Monash University

Author Information

Cristóbal Escobar is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne, Film Programmer at FIDOCS and Co-Founder of the Screening Ideas program.

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