Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World by Allan Thomas (English) Paperback

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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.

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Why does Gilles Deleuze write about the cinema to address specific philosophical problems? Deleuze turns to the cinema precisely because its formal resources 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 how resources of the cinema enable him to do so where philosophy alone cannot. He offers new insights into the conceptual underpinnings both of the Cinema books themselves and of the trajectory of Deleuzian philosophy.

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'Allen James Thomas' superb book is a wonderfully detailed analysis of Deleuze's work on the cinema, but it is also a profound work of philosophy. For Deleuze, great filmmakers are also great thinkers who happen to think in terms of images rather than concepts. By reading Deleuze through the lens of writers as diverse as Bergson, Blanchot, Badiou, and Barradori, Thomas's book is a wide-ranging exploration of the Deleuzian thesis that cinema must be understood, above all, as an act of thinking.'Daniel W. Smith, Purdue UniversityWhy does Gilles Deleuze write about the cinema as a philosopher?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. Allan James Thomas is Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, AustraliaCover image: Trees in the morning mist, 2009

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'Allen James Thomas' superb book is a wonderfully detailed analysis of Deleuze's work on the cinema, but it is also a profound work of philosophy. For Deleuze, great filmmakers are also great thinkers who happen to think in terms of images rather than concepts. By reading Deleuze through the lens of writers as diverse as Bergson, Blanchot, Badiou, and Barradori, Thomas's book is a wide-ranging exploration of the Deleuzian thesis that cinema must be understood, above all, as an act of thinking.'Daniel W. Smith, Purdue UniversityWhy does Gilles Deleuze write about the cinema as a philosopher?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.Allan James Thomas is Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, AustraliaCover image: Trees in the morning mist, 2009

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Allan James Thomas is Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: The Problem of Cinema; 1.1 Transcendental Empiricism and the 'Cahiers Axiom'; 1.2 The Monotony of Difference; 2. The Interval as Disaster; 2.1 Terminus, or, Waiting for a Train; 2.2 (Film) History as Montage; 2.3 Cinema as an Anterior History of Violence; 3. Movement, Duration and Difference; 3.1 The Three Theses on Movement; 3.2 The Temporalisation of Difference; 3.3 How to Escape the Dialectic; 4. What Use is Cinema to Deleuze?; 4.1 The Necessary Illusions of Practical Life; 4.2 A Materialist Practice of Metaphysics; 4.3 Transcendental Empiricism as Cinematic Philosophy; 5. Genesis and Deduction; 5.1 Cinematic Being; 5.2 Weak Reasoning, Perversity and Grasping at Threads; 5.3 From 'Primitive' Cinema to Real Movement; 6. The Thought of the World; 6.1 Cinematic Aberration and the 'Great Kantian Reversal'; 6.2 The Classical Cinema as Totalisation; 6.3 Cinema as 'Art of the Masses'; 7. The Night, the Rain; 7.1 Film, Death (the 'Reverse Proof'); 7.2 The Suspension of the World; 7.3 'The Image, the Remains'; 8. Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy; List of Works Cited.

Review

After D.N. Rodowick, Ronald Bogue, Paola Marrati, David Deamer, David Martin-Jones and Pierre Montebello, it might have been imagined that there was no need for a further monograph on Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books. Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World proves any such supposition wrong. Indeed, it forced me to think and rethink at every turn. [...] [an] indispensable contribution this important book makes to any (re)thinking of these and many other matters.--Robert Lapsley "Film-Philosophy"Allan James Thomas' superb book is a wonderfully detailed analysis of Deleuze's work on the cinema, but it is also a profound work of philosophy. For Deleuze, great filmmakers are also great thinkers who happen to think in terms of images rather than concepts. By reading Deleuze through the lens of writers as diverse as Bergson, Blanchot, Badiou, and Barradori, Thomas's book is a wide-ranging exploration of the Deleuzian thesis that cinema must be understood, above all, as an act of thinking.-- "Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University"

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Allan James Thomas' superb book is a wonderfully detailed analysis of Deleuze's work on the cinema, but it is also a profound work of philosophy. For Deleuze, great filmmakers are also great thinkers who happen to think in terms of images rather than concepts. By reading Deleuze through the lens of writers as diverse as Bergson, Blanchot, Badiou, and Barradori, Thomas's book is a wide-ranging exploration of the Deleuzian thesis that cinema must be understood, above all, as an act of thinking.

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The first book to address Deleuze's Cinema books in terms of the specific philosophical problems he seeks to resolve, and can only resolve, by means of the cinema

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Why does Gilles Deleuze write about the cinema as a philosopher? 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.

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The first book to address Deleuze's Cinema books in terms of the specific philosophical problems he seeks to resolve, and can only resolve, by means of the cinema Explores Deleuze's characterisation of the history of the cinema as a dramatisation of the history of philosophy Shows how Deleuze draws on the cinema to construct a genetic account of thought that accounts for and overcomes the limits of human thought and philosophy

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The first book to address Deleuze's Cinemabooks in terms of the specific philosophical problems he seeks to resolve, and can only resolve, by means of the cinema Explores Deleuze's characterisation of the history of the cinema as a dramatisation of the history of philosophy Shows how Deleuze draws on the cinema to construct a genetic account of thought that accounts for and overcomes the limits of human thought and philosophy

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Continental Philosophy; Film Studies

Details ISBN1474432808 Publisher Edinburgh University Press ISBN-10 1474432808 ISBN-13 9781474432801 Format Paperback Author Allan Thomas Pages 280 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-08-31 Language English DEWEY 194 UK Release Date 2019-08-31 Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2019-08-31 Series Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2019-11-13 Alternative 9781474432795 We've got this

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