Deleuze's Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images

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Deleuze’s two Cinema books explore film through the creation of a series of philosophical concepts. Not only bewildering in number, Deleuze’s writing procedures mean his exegesis is both complex and elusive. Three questions emerge: What are the underlying principles of the taxonomy? How many concepts are there, and what do they describe? How might each be used in engaging with a film? David Deamer’s book is the first to fully respond to these three questions, unearthing the philosophies inspiring Deleuze’s classifications, exploring every concept and reading a film for each. Clearly and concisely mapping the Cinema books for newcomers to Deleuzian film studies, Deamer also opens up new areas of enquiry for expert readers. Key Features: • An interpretation of Bergson’s Matter and Memory through Deleuze’s Bergsonism describing the ground of Deleuze’s film-philosophy; • A reading of Peirce’s semiosis from Pragmatism and Pragmaticism explicating the genesis and components of the movement-image; • An examination of Deleuze’s syntheses of time, space and consciousness from Difference and Repetition illuminating the genesis and components of the time-image; • Concise engagements with each of the cinematic signs to assist reading Deleuze’s Cinema books, as well as commentaries and monographs that draw upon them; • 44 film readings – one for each cinematic sign – to clarify their application. Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface: A Deleuzian Cineosis Part One: Unfolding the Cineosis Section I. First Introduction. Two Regimes of Images 1. Movement-images and Time-images: Bergson, image and duration 2. Movement-images: Peirce, Semiosis 3. Time-images: Deleuze, syntheses 4. Time-images and Movement-­images: Bergson, duration and image Section II. Second Introduction. A Series of Images and Signs 1. Perception-images 2. Affection-images 3. Impulse-images (the nascent action-image) 4. Action-images (small form, action → situation) 5. Action-images (large form, situation → action) 6. Attraction-images (first reflection-image; sixth mental-image) 7. Inversion-images (second reflection-image; fifth mental-image) 8. Discourse-images (third reflection-image; fourth mental-image) 9. Dream-images (third mental-image) 10. Recollection-images (second mental-image) 11. Relation-images (first mental-image) 12. Opsigns and sonsigns 13. Hyalosigns 14. Chronosigns 15. Noosigns 16. Lectosigns Afterword to Part One: The Unfolded Cineosis Section III. Third Introduction. Cinematographics (1995–2015) 1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Solid perception 2. Timecode. Liquid perception 3. Naqoyqatsi. Gaseous perception 4. Theeviravaathi/The Terrorist. Icon 5. Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2 and Minions. Dividual 6. Le quattro volte/Four Times. Any-space-whatever 7. The Human Centipede (First Sequence). Symptom 8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2. Fetish 9. Innocence. Originary World 10. Madeo/Mother. Index of lack 11. The Killer Inside Me. Index of equivocity 12. Ajami. Vector 13. marxism today (prologue) and untitled. Milieu 14. Made in Dagenham. Binomial 15. Fish Tank. Imprint 16. Tian bian yi duo yun/The Wandering Cloud. Plastic figure 17. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Theatrical figure 18. Source Code. Mise en abyme 19. Four Lions. Figure of the sublime 20. Slackistan. Figure of enfeeblement 21. Un homme qui crie/A Screaming Man. Quotidian 22. Monsters, Limit of the large form action-image 23. Brooklyn’s Finest. Limit of the small form action-image 24. Metro Manila. Limit of the action-image 25. Star Trek – First Contact. Rich dreams 26. The Machinist. Restrained dreams 27. Inception. Movement of world 28. El secreto de sus ojos/The Secret in Their Eyes. Strong destiny 29. White Material. Weak destiny 30. Triangle. Forking paths 31. Se7en. Mark 32. Doctor Who – The Day of the Doctor. Demark 33. Buried. Symbol 34. Five. Opsigns and sonsigns 35. Black Swan. Mirrors face to face 36. Self Made. Limpid and opaque 37. Synecdoche, New York. Seed and environment 38. Loong Boonmee raleuk chat/Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Peaks of the present 39. Russkiy kovcheg/Russian Ark. Sheets of the Past 40. Er shi si cheng ji/24 City. Powers of the false 41. I’m Not There. Bodies of attitude 42. Politist, adjectiv/Police, Adjective. Bodies of gest 43. Dogville. Cinema of the brain 44. Enter the Void. Lectosigns Select Bibliography Filmography Index