Download Book: Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema

Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema
By Ian Buchanan, Patricia MacCormack



In 1971, Deleuze and Guattaris collaborative work, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia caused an international sensation by fusing Marx with a radically rewritten Freud to produce a new approach to critical thinking they provocatively called schizoanalysis. Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema explores the possibilities of using this concept to interrogate cinematic works in both the Hollywood and non-Hollywood tradition. It attempts to define what a schizoanalysis of cinema might be and interrogates a variety of ways in which a schizoanalysis might be applied. This collection opens up a fresh field of inquiry for Deleuze scholars and poses an exciting challenge to cinema studies in general. Featuring some of the most important cinema studies scholars working on Deleuze and Guattari today, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema is a cutting edge collection that will set the agenda for future work in this area.

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Download Ebook The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
By Laura U. Marks
 

Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The Skin of the Film Laura U. Marks offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema represents embodied experience in a postcolonial, transnational world.

Much of intercultural cinema, Marks argues, has its origin in silence, in the gaps left by recorded history. Filmmakers seeking to represent their native cultures have had to develop new forms of cinematic expression. Marks offers a theory of “haptic visuality”—a visuality that functions like the sense of touch by triggering physical memories of smell, touch, and taste—to explain the newfound ways in which intercultural cinema engages the viewer bodily to convey cultural experience and memory. Using close to two hundred examples of intercultural film and video, she shows how the image allows viewers to experience cinema as a physical and multisensory embodiment of culture, not just as a visual representation of experience. Finally, this book offers a guide to many hard-to-find works of independent film and video made by Third World diasporic filmmakers now living in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.

The Skin of the Film draws on phenomenology, postcolonial and feminist theory, anthropology, and cognitive science. It will be essential reading for those interested in film theory, experimental cinema, the experience of diaspora, and the role of the sensuous in culture.

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Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices

Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices
By Bruce Bennett, Marc Furstenau, Adrian MacKenzie
 
The essays collected in Cinema and Technology map out a new interdisciplinary terrain, combining contemporary analyses of material and visual culture, deploying the methods of film studies, media and cultural studies, media anthropology, and science and technology studies. Rather than describing a technological "crisis," or separating the technological and aesthetic halves of the cinema, they present a manifold, expansive reconsideration of the life of technologies in the cultures, theories and practices of cinematic production and consumption.


Table of Contents
Biographical Notes • Acknowledgements • Introduction: B.Bennett, M.Furstenau & A.MackenziePART I: FORMAT • The Perilous Gauge: Canadian Independent Film Exhibition and the 16mm Mobile Menace; P.Lester • BMW Films and the Star Wars Kid: 'Early Web Cinema' and Technology; A.Clay • On Some Limits to Film Theory (Mainly From Science); J.Elkins PART II: NORMS • Socially Combustible: Panicky People, Flammable Films, and the Dangerous New Technology of the Nickelodeon; P.Moore • Cinema and its Doubles: Kittler vs. Deleuze; J.Harris • Genomic Science in Contemporary Film: Institutions, Individuals and Genre;K.O'Riordan • PART III: SCANNING • Cinema as Technology: Encounters with an Interface; A.Wood • Demonlover: Interval, Affect and the Aesthetics of Digital Dislocation'Into the décor': Attention and Distraction, Foreground and Background;C.Rodrigues • Children, Robots, Cinephilia and Technophobia; B.Bennett • PART IV: MOVEMENT • Lola and the Vampire: Technologies of Time and Movement in German Cinema;M.Langford • Inbetweening: Animation, Deleuze, Film Theory; B.Schaffer • Affective Troubles and Cinema; M-L.Angerer • Afterword: Digital Cinema and the Apparatus: Archaeologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies; T.Elsaesser* Bibliography • Index

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Download ebook In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art By Bert Cardullo

"In Search of Cinema" chronicles the vitality of international film art in the last two decades. At a time when the movie review has degenerated into mere publicity for Hollywood pictures and film scholarship has become entangled in its own pseudo-scientific discourse, Bert Cardullo reclaims the territory of a certain type of film critic, somewhere between a reviewer-journalist and a scholar-theorist. With elegance, clarity, and rigour, he offers close readings of individual films to show how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals.

The essays collected here reflect the spectacular rise of Iranian cinema in recent years as well as the strong contributions of contemporary filmmakers from countries such as Belgium, Canada, China, Israel, Lebanon, Scotland, and Spain. But "In Search of Cinema" does not neglect the best recent films from major film-producing nations like the United States, France, and Italy and includes retrospective pieces on the careers of Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen as well as several essays on the interrelationship between film form, or film genres, and drama and the novel, the two forms from which the cinema continues to draw a wealth of its material.


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Download Ebook Existentialist Cinema by William C. Pamerleau

An exploration of the relationship between cinema and existentialism, in terms of their mutual ability to describe the human condition, this book combines analyses of topics in the philosophy of film with an exploration of specific existentialist themes expressed in the films of Fellini, Bergman and Woody Allen, among others.

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PART I: SETTING THE STAGE: THEORETICAL ISSUES
Existentialism: An Overview of Important Themes and Figures
Film as Tool for Philosophical Investigation
Film Realism and Narrative Identity
PART II: MEANINGFUL MOVIES
Antonioni: Meaninglessness and the Modern World
Religiosity in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
Rethinking Raskolnikov: Exploring Contemporary Ethical Challenges in the Films of Woody Allen
Authenticity in the Films of Federico Fellini
The Nietzschean Free Spirit in Dead Poets Society and Harold and Maude
Conclusion
Notes

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