Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism : Philosophy, Theory, and the Individual Film

This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s work on cinema. In the last two decades, Deleuze's two books on film have had an enormous influence on Film Studies, profoundly affecting thinking about movement, time, history, and other topics. Theoretically ambitious and philosophically rich but clearly written by a broad range of established and emerging international film scholars, the chapters in this volume will both contribute to, and in places challenge, the vibrant field of Deleuzian film studies. Topics covered range from the relationship of Deleuze to film criticism; the role of theories of movement; and studies of works by major filmmakers including Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Vincente Minnelli, and Orson Welles. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in Deleuze but to anybody engaged with the close study of film and its philosophical ramifications. Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures 1 Introduction Preliminaries Deleuze, Film Criticism, and the Study of Individual Films Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism in Context Outline of This Book Notes Bibliography Part I Perspectives on Method 2 What Does Deleuze Do When He Does Film Criticism? “having an idea in cinema” “a properly cinematographic idea” Ideas and Concepts “any-question-whatever” The Beautiful Idea of Ikiru Deleuze, the Film Critic? Notes Bibliography 3 Deleuze and the Film in His Mind Notes Bibliography Part II Criticism, Philosophy, Theory 4 Gilles Deleuze and the Company of Critics: On Kubrick, Time, and Cinema I II III Notes Bibliography 5 “Very Slight Differences”: Deleuze and the Aesthetics of Cinematic Motion Deleuze’s Devaluation of Cinematic Motion “Very Slight Differences” The Novelty of the Instant Conclusion Notes Bibliography 6 “Something Possible, Otherwise I Will Suffocate”: A Marginal Reading of Chapter 7, Section 2 of Deleuze’s The Time-Image Bibliography Part III Films and Filmmakers 7 Banish All the World: Deleuze on Chimes at Midnight The First Forger Cold-Blooded Warming the Blood The Counterfeit King Falstaff’s World Notes Bibliography 8 Donen and Minnelli: An Exchange of Energies Break-Ins Surface Effects and Pluralities Territories and Hesitations Spatial Temporalities Infinite Multiplications Notes Bibliography 9 Deleuze and Fellini: And the Ship Sails on Notes Bibliography 10 Hypnosis-Images: Indiscernibility and Hypnotic Agency in Gilles Deleuze’s Heart of Glass The Place of Heart of Glass in Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 A Partial Account of Heart of Glass, Guided by Deleuze Notes Bibliography Index