Deleuze and Cinema: An Introduction

Dec 08, 2010

The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is perhaps one of the most important but least understood syntheses of cinema history and philosophy in the last forty years. In this two-hour discussion session, Joe Milutis will give a general introduction to Gilles Deleuze’s major books Cinema One and Cinema Two, with particular emphasis on Deleuze’s philosophy of the virtual, and its relation to the work of Henri Bergson.

Participants need not have read Deleuze’s Cinema or the work of Henri Bergson (e.g. Matter and Memory), though it is suggested. Film clips from films such as The Passion of Joan of Arc, Last Year at Marienbad, Lola Montes, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Avventura, The Leopard, Histoire(s) du Cinema, The General Line, Solaris, 8 1/2, The Great Train Robbery, The Searchers, Humoresque, Stromboli, Nights of Cabiria, Pierrot le Fou, India Song and Salem’s Lot may be discussed.


The following may be helpful to review in advance:

Bergson's Matter and Memory: pp. 1-85 (chapter 1)
Deleuze, Cinema One: pp. 1-28; 56-70; 102-122
Deleuze, Cinema Two: pp. 1-13; 44-126
Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc
Resnais' Last Year at  Marienbad

 

 

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