The Matrix of Visual Culture
Working with Deleuze in Film Theory
Published on 24. July 2003
320 pages
978-0-8047-6455-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
3 tables, 1 figure
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-6455-1 (9780804764551)
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Book
07/2003
Stanford University Press
€131.50
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Person
Patricia Pisters is Professor of Film at the University of Amsterdam.
Content
- Intro
- Cultural Memory in the Present
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1
- Hitchcock's Universe: Zizek and Deleuze
- Metacinema and the Cinematographic Apparatus: Peeping Tom and Strange Days
- Camera Consciousness and Temporal Confusion: Strange Days and Vertigo
- 2
- Psychoanalysis and the Monstrous Flesh
- Affects and Politics of the Spinozian Body
- The Plane of Immanence: Subjectivity and Images of the Flesh
- 3
- Violence and Cinema of the Body
- Missing People and Fabulation
- Schizophrenia in Contemporary Hollywood
- 4
- The Philosopher Meets Alice in Wonderland
- Becoming-Woman in Feminism: Alice Doesn't?
- Alice in Cinematic Wonderland
- 5
- Stories, Sensations, and Affection-Images
- Becoming-Child Before Becoming-Animal
- Passive and Active Affects
- 6
- Acoustic Mirrors and Fantasmatic Structures
- Rhythm, the Refrain, and (De)Territorialization
- The (Female) Voice: Back on the Throne?
- Cosmic Forces: Becoming in Music
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Filmography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cultural Memory in the Present
