Cinema After Deleuze [Paperback]

Cinema After Deleuzeoffers a clear and lucid introduction to Deleuze's writings on cinema which will appeal both to undergraduates and specialists in film studies and philosophy. The book provides explanations of the many categories and classifications found in Deleuze's two landmark books on cinema and offers assessments of a range of films, including works by John Ford, Sergei Eisenstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais and others. Contemporary directors such as Steven Spielberg, Lars von Trier, Martin Scorsese and Wong Kar-wai are also examined in the light of Deleuze's theories, thus bringing Deleuze's writings on cinema right up to date.Cinema After Deleuzedemonstrates why Deleuze is rightly considered today to be one of the great philosophers of cinema. The book is essential reading for students in philosophy and film studies alike.

Acknowledgements \ 1. What Questions does Deleuze's Philosophy of Cinema Answer? \ 2. The Movement-Image (I): Griffith, Eisenstein, Gance, Lang \ 3. The Movement-Image (II): Ford and Kazan \ 4. The Movement-Image (III): Hawks and Hitchcock \ 5. The Time-Image (I): Italian Neorealism and After \ 6. The Time-Image (II): Ophuls and Fellini \ 7. The Time-Image (III): Welles and Resnais \ 8. Thought and Cinema \ 9. Cinema After Deleuze (I): The Persistence of the Movement-Image \ 10. Cinema After Deleuze (II): Recent Elements of the Time-Image \ Notes \ Works Cited \ Index

Richard Rushton is Senior Lecturer in Film
Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of The Reality of Film (Manchester University Press, 2010) and (with
Gary Bettinson) What is Film
Theory? (Open University Press, 2010) as well as numerous articles
on film and cultural theory.