Deleuze and Film

AUTHOR APPROVEDDeleuze and Film presents a rich collection of essays that takes Deleuze's work on cinema out of its dominant Eurocentric corpus. Taking us on an inspiring world tour of film analysis and creative conceptual thinking, this book testifies to the continuing productive generosity of Deleuze's film-philosophy, and includes a dynamic range and depth of film scholarship.Patricia Pisters, Professor of Media and Film Studies, University of AmsterdamThis book testifies to the continuing vitality of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema volumes: they still offer resources to film scholars and theorists today even when they are working on the sorts of films that Deleuze himself never commented on.Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State UniversityA wide-ranging collection of essays on the film-philosophy of Gilles DeleuzeDeleuze and Film explores how different films from around the world 'think' about a range of topics, including history, national identity, geopolitics, ethics, gender, genre, affect, religion, surveillance culture, digital aesthetics and the body. Mapping the global diversity of such cinematic thinking, this book greatly expands upon the range of films discussed in Deleuze's Cinema books.Includesanalysis of several Asian films: Japan's most famous monster movie Godzilla, the colourful Thai western Tears of the Black Tiger, the South Korean road movie Traces of Love, and the Iranian comedy The Lizarddiscussion of American film noir, recent European art films such as Red Road and The Lives of Others, and focused studies of directors as diverse as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Baz Luhrmanna dedicated chapter on the animated documentary Waltz with BashirHollywood CGI Blockbusters including Hellboy and The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonDavid Martin-Jones is Senior Lectur