Untimely Affects: Gilles Deleuze and an Ethics of Cinema (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies)

How does cinema function as a means of ethical resistance and thought? Focusing on Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's cinemas, Boljkovac uses the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to ask how cinema can enable us to see and act in an ethical way. It offers a new perspective on the relationships between poststructuralist philosophy, ethics and modern cinema. It reads and analyses the cinematic medium itself through concepts of affect, sensation and actual virtual violence. Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 7 Abbreviations 10 Images 12 Introduction 14 1 Art鈥檚 Resistance 24 2 Figures of Life 44 3 From Depths and Ashes 74 4 Mad Love 104 5 Signs Without Name 126 6 Of Scars, Smiles and Past-Future Signs 158 Conclusion 185 References 191 Index 199 How do the practices of philosophy and film converge in ethical and political theory? Focusing on Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's cinemas, Boljkovac uses the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to ask how cinema can enable us to see and act in an ethical way