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. 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. DELEUZE, CINEMA AND THE THOUGHT OF THE WORLD......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 7 1 Introduction: The Problem of Cinema......Page 8 2 The Interval as Disaster......Page 30 3 Movement, Duration and Difference......Page 60 4 What Use is Cinema to Deleuze?......Page 92 5 Genesis and Deduction......Page 126 6 The Thought of the World......Page 167 7 The Night, the Rain......Page 208 8 Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy......Page 252 References......Page 261 Index......Page 270 Deleuze turns to the cinema because its formal resources enable it to 'think' the relation between movement and duration in ways that philosophy cannot. Discover the nature of the philosophical problems that Deleuze turns to the cinema to resolve and how resources of the cinema enable him to do what philosophy alone cannot.