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Title: Cinema 1: Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze ISBN: 0-8166-1400-8 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must film and media theorists.
Comment: The above review of this book does a great job already, so I will try to complement it as best I can. Deleuze is a difficult thinker for newcomers. His ideas tend to refer to one another and have developed into a complex network of concepts over the course of his writings. The good news is that Deleuze is drawing an immense amount of interest in the US and UK now.
Deleuze sets out in the cinema books to create a theory of film and the image that stands in sharp contrast to the film theory we're most accustomed to. Deleuze does not accept that narrativity is a given in film. In fact, he wants to find a way of appreciating and describing what distinguishes film from language and narrative systems. For Deleuze, the moving image is not a system of reference. One doesn't refer to something through a segment of film. The filmic medium is direct, not referential.
Cinema 1 is thus a look at how the early cinema learned to produce the "movement image." It's a review of "auteur" film-makers and their experiments with the medium (in addition to those mentioned above are Welles, Godard, Eisenstein, Lang, Resnais, Hitchock...) to produce perception, affect, and action.
He contrasts montage with mise-en-scene. He shows how action corresponds to situations, either responding to situations or modifying them. He describes the discovery of depth of field, and use of affect in close ups and still images, the importance of shot and reverse shot sequences, and movement within the scene vs of the camera. He shows how pre-war film maintained a commitment to the whole. Characters' actions were motivated by situations, and films as a whole hung together.
The book concludes with Hitchcock's invention of the audience as a third term in the filmic experience: subject, object, audience. Audiences complete Peirce's sign system (firstness, secondness, thirdness) because they interpret the film. Indeed, Hitchcock's art was in showing the audience what the character would only discover later, and in making his films into logical puzzles rather than whodunits.
A dazzling book, I had to read it twice, and many of the films referenced won't be on dvd for years....
Rating: 5
Summary: The finest reflection on cinema.
Comment: Gilles Delueze creates in his books on cinema a taxonomy, an attempt at the
classification of cinematic images and signs. This classification is an insightful
elaboration on Bergson's theses on movement and on Pierce's signs system. If
this taxonomy is the core of the "movement-image" book, its heart is a brilliant
and systematic history of aesthetic forms of the classical cinema. Some of the more
interesting ideas are the two poles of the close-up, Goethe's theory of color and German
expressionism, the space in Bresson, an account of Bunuel as naturalist, the difference
between John Ford and Howard Hawks, the crisis of the action-image and the essence
of comedy as in Lubitsch, Chaplin and Keaton. Nevertheless, it is not a book about
cinema, nor is it a book of film history. It is the practice of concepts. Deleuze writes:
"Philosophical theory is itself a practice, just as much as its object. It is no more abstract
than its object...So that there is always a time, midday-midnight, when we must no
longer ask ourselves 'What is cinema?' but 'What is philosophy?'". Only Deleuze, one
of the greatest minds of our Century, could answer this question with so much elegance,
profundity, ingenuity and mystical charm.
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Title: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ISBN: 0816612250 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Brian Massumi ISBN: 0816614024 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Deleuze on Cinema by Ronald Bogue ISBN: 0415966043 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Brain Is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema by Gregory Flaxman, Editor,Gregory Flaxman ISBN: 0816634475 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 17 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema by Christian Metz, Michael Taylor ISBN: 0226521303 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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