商品簡介
This scholarly book looks at the philosophy of cinema in light of the writing of Gilles Deleuze. It follows basic premises of French film criticism: the director is the author of a film, and functionally equivalent to a novelist: neither dynamics of team work nor practical technologies, accidents, and necessities of film production systems have significant influence. The book's first chapter looks at the philosophy of Deleuze. The author points out that Deleuze is not interested in the question of what cinema is, but rather in the question of what films do, from a philosophical perspective. His answer is that they manipulate time and movement, with sweeping cultural associations. The next nine chapters are divided into three on the movement-image (in Griffith, Eisenstein, Gance, and Lang, Ford and Kazan, and Hawks and Hitchcock), three on the time-image (in Italian neorealism, Ophuls and Fellini, and Welles and Resnais), and chapters on "Thought and Cinema" and recent iterations of the movement-image and the time-image. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Richard Rushton is Lecturer in Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of What is Film Theory? (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming) and numerous articles on film and cultural theory.
