Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World
Despite their title, Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books are not 'about' the cinema: they are works of philosophy first and foremost, even if this has yet to be fully recognised.

Deleuze turns to the cinema in order to address specific philosophical problems - precisely because the formal resources of the cinema 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 both how and why the resources of the cinema enable him to do so where philosophy alone cannot. Thomas offers new insights into the conceptual underpinnings both of the Cinema books themselves and of the trajectory of Deleuzian philosophy as a whole.
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Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World
Despite their title, Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books are not 'about' the cinema: they are works of philosophy first and foremost, even if this has yet to be fully recognised.

Deleuze turns to the cinema in order to address specific philosophical problems - precisely because the formal resources of the cinema 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 both how and why the resources of the cinema enable him to do so where philosophy alone cannot. Thomas offers new insights into the conceptual underpinnings both of the Cinema books themselves and of the trajectory of Deleuzian philosophy as a whole.
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Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World

Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World

by Allan James Thomas
Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World

Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World

by Allan James Thomas

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Despite their title, Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books are not 'about' the cinema: they are works of philosophy first and foremost, even if this has yet to be fully recognised.

Deleuze turns to the cinema in order to address specific philosophical problems - precisely because the formal resources of the cinema 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 both how and why the resources of the cinema enable him to do so where philosophy alone cannot. Thomas offers new insights into the conceptual underpinnings both of the Cinema books themselves and of the trajectory of Deleuzian philosophy as a whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474432801
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 08/07/2019
Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: The Problem of Cinema
1.1 Transcendental Empiricism and the 'Cahiers Axiom'
1.2 The Monotony of Difference

2. The Interval as Disaster
2.1 Terminus, or, Waiting for a Train
2.2 (Film) History as Montage
2.3 Cinema as an Anterior History of Violence

3. Movement, Duration and Difference
3.1 The Three Theses on Movement
3.2 The Temporalisation of Difference
3.3 How to Escape the Dialectic

4. What Use is Cinema to Deleuze?
4.1 The Necessary Illusions of Practical Life
4.2 A Materialist Practice of Metaphysics
4.3 Transcendental Empiricism as Cinematic Philosophy

5. Genesis and Deduction
5.1 Cinematic Being
5.2 Weak Reasoning, Perversity and Grasping at Threads
5.3 From 'Primitive' Cinema to Real Movement

6. The Thought of the World
6.1 Cinematic Aberration and the 'Great Kantian Reversal'
6.2 The Classical Cinema as Totalisation
6.3 Cinema as 'Art of the Masses'
7. The Night, the Rain
7.1 Film, Death (the 'Reverse Proof')
7.2 The Suspension of the World
7.3 'The Image, the Remains'

8. Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy

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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.

Purdue University Daniel W. Smith

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.

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