Untimely Affects
Gilles Deleuze and an Ethics of Cinema
Published on 29. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-4744-0474-7 (ISBN)
Description
Untimely Affects offers an ethical and aesthetic interweaving of Deleuzian philosophy and close film analysis to discern how thought persists productively after the horrors of World War II. In this first extensive analysis of Chris Marker and Alain Resnais' films, Nadine Boljkovac draws on concepts and images that interrogate 'what we are now living through', in the words of Klossowski's Nietzsche. Mindful of the seen and unseen 'that quicken the heart' (Marker), this book of film-philosophy discerns new and deeply ethical life-affirming possibilities through its weave of cine-philosophy. As such, this book speaks directly to essences of cinema, thought and life through creative untimeliness and the idea of the 'ever new'.
Reviews / Votes
The philosophical ideas that inspire Boljkovac are extreme: happiness, love and madness at one end; pain, suffering and misery at the other. Cinema is her vehicle into a hope-filled future. Never a mechanical application of Deleuzian theory to key films by Marker and Resnais, Untimely Affects is important and inspiring. * Adrian Martin, Associate Professor, Monash University * The philosophical ideas that inspire Boljkovac are extreme: happiness, love and madness at one end; pain, suffering and misery at the other. Cinema is her vehicle into a hope-filled future. Through its encounters with key films and texts by Marker, Resnais, Deleuze and others, Untimely Affects is important and inspiring. * Adrian Martin, Associate Professor, Monash University * In a sensitive reading of Deleuze and through a moving appreciation of the works of Resnais and Marker, Nadine Boljkovac opens an urgent path for film and philosophy, where they answer the demand to respond ethically to the terrible events that continue to haunt our worlds. * James Williams, Professor of European Philosophy, University of Dundee * In a sensitive reading of Deleuze and through a moving appreciation of the works of Resnais and Marker, Nadine Boljkovac opens an urgent path for film and philosophy, where they answer the demand to respond ethically to the terrible events that continue to haunt our worlds. * James Williams, University of Dundee * Boljkovac makes saliently clear the powerful force of attraction that brings Marker, Resnais and Deleuze into each other's orbits. Readers will welcome close, sustained, and ever-rewarding readings of cinema, history, and philosophy on each and every page. * Tom Conley, Harvard University * Boljkovac makes saliently clear the powerful force of attraction that brings Marker, Resnais and Deleuze into each other's orbits. Readers will welcome close, sustained, and ever-rewarding readings of cinema, history, and philosophy on each and every page. * Tom Conley, Harvard University *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
14 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
329 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-0474-7 (9781474404747)
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04/2015
Edinburgh University Press
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05/2013
Edinburgh University Press
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Person
Nadine Boljkovac (PhD, Cambridge) is Postdoctoral Fellow of Visual Culture & the Moving Image, Centre for Modernism Studies, UNSW. She was the Brown University 2012-13 Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow, a University of Edinburgh 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, and University of Aberdeen 2009-10 Film Teaching Fellow, and holds degrees in Theoretical, Critical, Historical Film Studies (York University Canada) and Cinema Studies and English (University of Toronto).
Content
List of images; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Art's Resistance; 2. Figures of Life; 3. From depths and ashes; 4. Mad Love; 5. Signs without name; 6. Of scars, smiles, and past-future signs; Conclusion; References; Index.