Deleuze and World Cinemas

ISBN-13: 9780826436429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str.

David Martin-Jones

Opis

Deleuze's Cinema books continue to cause controversy. Although they offer radical new ways of understanding cinema, his conclusions often seem strikingly Eurocentric. Deleuze and World Cinemas explores what happens when Deleuze's ideas are brought into contact with the films he did not discuss, those from Europe and the USA (from Georges Melies to Michael Mann) and a range of world cinemas - including Bollywood blockbusters, Hong Kong action movies, Argentine melodramas and South Korean science fiction movies. These emergent encounters demonstrate the need for the constant adaptation and reinterpretation of Deleuze's findings if they are to have continued relevance, especially for cinema's contemporary engagement with the aftermath of the Cold War and the global dominance of neoliberal globalization.

Recenzje

This monograph is an ambitious, yet well executed project... Martin-Jones makes an important and precise contribution to Deleuzian scholarship, despite the broad and expansive nature of the topic at hand. As the global film industry has evolved and become more interconnected since the 1980s, we must refresh our ideas about the de/ reterritorialised flows of this global rhizome... Rather than letting Deleuzian scholarship remain confined in Eurocentric boundaries, Martin-Jones is allowing a morphogenetic response from the Cinema books criticism to a wider, global range of films... My final thought on this book is that it is lucid, well structured, simple and effective... Martin-Jones has written a thought-provoking and provocative monograph. Avello, 1: 1 (2011)

Spis treści

Introduction: Deterritorializing Deleuze Spectacle I: Attraction-Image 1. The Attraction-Image: From Georges Méliès to the Spaghetti Western Impossible Voyage (1904) Django (1966) Keoma (1976) History: Deleuze After Dictatorship 2. The Child-seer in and as History: Argentine Melodrama Kamchatka (2002) 3. Folding and Unfolding History: South Korean Time Travel Movies Calla (1999) Ditto (2000) 2009: Lost Memories (2002) Space: Geopolitics and the Action-Image 4. Not just any-space-whatever: Hong Kong and the global/local action-image Police Story (1985) 5. Globalization 's Action Crystals: Los Angeles in Michael Mann Blockbusters Heat (1995) Collateral (2004) Spectacle II: Masala-Image 6. The Masala-Image: Popular Indian (Bollywood) Cinema Toofani Tarzan (1936) Awaara (1951) Dilwale Dulhania La Jayenge (1995) Conclusion: The Continuing Adventures of Deleuze and World Cinemas Bibliography Index.

O autorze

David Martin-Jones is Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity (2006), Deleuze Reframed (2008) and Scotland: Global Cinema (2009), and co-editor of Cinema at the Periphery (2010) and Deleuze and Film (forthcoming). He is on the editorial boards of Film-Philosophy and A/V: The Journal of Deleuzian Studies.