Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts
English · Berg · 2011
ISBN 9781847880536Verify editionNo verifiable published translation record was located.
Core question
How can concepts from Deleuze's two Cinema books be used in screen analysis without reducing films to examples of terms? How do frame, cut, sign, time, politics, and thought compose an open cinematic system?
Argument
Colman reconstructs film philosophy as a fourteen-step method beginning with the ciné-system. Movement, frame/shot/cut, montage, perception, affect, and action establish the base; TransSemiotics and the sign-vector address the production of meaning; time, politics, topology, and thought culminate in ciné-ethics. Taxonomy becomes a system whose relations are continually changed by bodies, technologies, sound, space, and power.
Argument structure
The mechanical and sensory bases of images lead into the operation of signs across systems and the production of time. Politics, topology, thought, and ethics develop how cinema changes bodies, spaces, and relations of power. Technical relations and the functions of signs connect these problems.