Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (Paperback)

by D. N.Rodowick (Author), Stanley Fish (Series Editor), Fredric Jameson (Series Editor) "1924. The classic cinema has perfected its geometry of forms, its logic of spatiotemporal exposition, and its "laws" for the linking of actions through montage..." (more)
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"Anglo-American critics have not yet begun to plumb the riches of Deleuze's investigation into cinema, and David Rodowick, well versed in philosophy and cinema studies, is the perfect person to bring these important works into focus for the American critical establishment. This book will become a standard work for anyone who wants to learn about Deleuze on cinema and about Deleuze more generally." - Dana Polan, University of Pittsburgh "Deleuze is now coming to be seen in the anglophone world for what the French have long known him to be - someone who is perhaps the most productive and important philosophical thinker of this century. And Rodowick has a flair for making genuinely illuminating connections between Deleuze's cinema books and his other works." - Kenneth Surin, Duke University "... an extremely cogent and helpful book, treating Deleuze's movie volumes "as a logical development through cinema of Deleuze's more general concerns". Michael Wood, London Review of Books

Product Description
Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick fills this gap by presenting the first comprehensive study, in any language, of Deleuze’s work on film and images. Placing Deleuze’s two books on cinema—The Movement-Image and The Time-Image—in the context of French cultural theory of the 1960s and 1970s, Rodowick examines the logic of Deleuze’s theories and the relationship of these theories to his influential philosophy of difference.
Rodowick illuminates the connections between Deleuze’s writings on visual and scientific texts and describes the formal logic of his theory of images and signs. Revealing how Deleuzian views on film speak to the broader network of philosophical problems addressed in Deleuze’s other books—including his influential work with Félix Guattari—Rodowick shows not only how Deleuze modifies the dominant traditions of film theory, but also how the study of cinema is central to the project of modern philosophy.


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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Duke University Press (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822319705
• ISBN-13: 978-0822319702
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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