Gilles Deleuze : cinéma et philosophie
French · Presses Universitaires de France · 2003
ISBN 9782130524434Verify editionGilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy
Trans. Alisa Hartz · Johns Hopkins University Press · 2008 / 2012
ISBN 9780801888021 / 9781421407913Gilles Deleuze: Cine y filosofía
Trans. Emilio Bernini · Nueva Visión · 2004
ISBN 9789506024819Core question
How does cinema constitute an independent mode of thought for philosophy? How does Deleuze use cinema to rethink movement, perception, time, subjectivity, and our belief in the world?
Argument
Across six compressed chapters, Marrati returns the Cinema books to Deleuze's philosophy of immanence. Beginning with images in movement, perception, and montage, she shows how postwar cinema loosens the structure of action and gives time a direct form, before gathering the argument around images and world. Her decisive contribution is to reject cinema's subordination to philosophy: films create problems of thought for which philosophy must invent concepts.
Argument structure
Movement, perception, and montage establish a common plane of images; the postwar rupture and time-image change the relation between subject and world. Immanence thus connects to belief in the world. The discussion of Cavell concerns the lost everyday and the possibility of regaining it.