Brain Is The Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema
By (Author) Gregory Flaxman
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st July 2000
United States
General
Non Fiction
791.4301
Paperback
408
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 25mm
The first broad-ranging collection on Deleuzes essential works on cinema. In the nearly twenty years since their publication, Gilles Deleuzes books about cinema have proven as daunting as they are enticinga new aesthetics of film, one equally at home with Henri Bergson and Wim Wenders, Friedrich Nietzsche and Orson Welles, that also takes its place in the philosophers immense and difficult oeuvre. With this collection, the first to focus solely and extensively on Deleuzes cinematic work, the nature and reach of that work finally become clear. Composed of a substantial introduction, twelve original essays produced for this volume, and a new English translation of a personal, intriguing, and little-known interview with Deleuze on his cinema books, The Brain Is the Screen is a sustained engagement with Deleuzes cinematic philosophy that leads to a new view of the larger confrontation of philosophy with cinematic images.Contributors: ric Alliez, U of Vienna; Dudley Andrew, U of Iowa; Peter Canning; Tom Conley, Harvard U; Andrs Blint Kovcs, ELTE U, Budapest; Gregg Lambert, Syracuse U; Laura U. Marks, Carleton U; Jean-Clet Martin, Collge International de Philosophie, Paris; Angelo Restivo; Martin Schwab, U of Michigan; Franois Zourabichvili, Collge International de Philosophie.Gregory Flaxman is a doctoral student in the Program of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.