Deleuze and Film A Feminist Introduction [Paperback]

In the first book-length introduction to Deleuze's work
on film from a feminist perspective, Teresa Rizzo ranges across Deleuze's books
on Cinema, his other writings, and feminist re-workings of his philosophy to
re-think the film viewing experience. More than a commentary on Deleuze's books
on Cinema, Rizzo's work addresses a significant gap in film theory, building a
bridge between the spectatorship studies and apparatus theories of the 1970s,
and new theorisations of the cinematic experience. Developing a concept of a
'cinematic assemblage', the book focuses on affective
and intensive connections between film and viewer. Through a
careful analysis of a range of film texts and genres that have been important
to feminist film scholarship, such as the Alien
series and the modern horror film, Rizzo puts Deleuze's key concepts to
work in exciting new ways.

A feminist introduction to Deleuze's work on cinema that proposes a new way of thinking about the cinematic viewing experience

Both an accessible introduction to Deleuze's cinema philosophy and a major advance in feminist film theory, this is a tour de force of lucid and creative thought. Rizzo's focus on the body of the viewer provides a provocative reconfiguration of Deleuze's cinematic taxonomy while opening lines of inquiry beyond the psychoanalytic models and theories of spectatorship currently dominant in film theory. An essential contribution to the field.'  Ronald Bogue, Distinguished Research Professor at University of Georgia, USA and author of Deleuze on Cinema (Routledge)

In Deleuze and Film: A Feminist IntroductionTeresa Rizzo presents us with a third Deleuze', that is a Deleuze who is a cineaste and a feminist. In this way we are given not only a new and rich introduction to Deleuze's thinking and writing on film, but also a provocative rethinking of his work from the perspectives of gender and film-making. This is an important lS4