Deleuze and World Cinemas

Author:   Dr David Martin-Jones
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
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9780826416933


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   21 April 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Shortlisted for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Annual Book Award! 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 Méliès 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.

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Author:   Dr David Martin-Jones
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780826416933


ISBN 10:   0826416934
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   21 April 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

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.

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Martin-Jones's application of Deleuze on cinema to a global context goes well beyond mere idolatry. He offers at once, a critical reading of Deleuze's ideas, a comprehensive account of the development of contemporary global cinema, and a wealth of critical film readings. The book is a must for those interested in Deleuze on the way cinema thinks as well as those interested in the way global culture is articulated in a wide variety of contemporary films - Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i, USA, Author of Cinematic Geopolitics


Deleuze and World Cinemas is distinctive in the critical literature on cinema: it offers a reading of Deleuze that is neither for nor against the philosopher. It is respectful of Deleuze's writings on cinema, but the book is steadfast in its tracing of the various ways in which Deleuze's formulations of the time-and movement-images, their Eurocentrism, necessitate their reconsideration in the context of World cinemas. Jones argues convincingly and in a lucid and engaging style for an a-Deleuzian position based on a careful examination of the Deleuze texts themselves, on major studies of Deleuze's cinematic philosophy, and on seminal writings in cinema theory and practices. Most striking is Martin-Jones's selection of films that, instead of rehearsing usual canonical suspects, opts for an analysis of popular films from Argentina, South Korea, Hong Kong, Hollywood, and India to refine on, expand, and resituate Deleuze's thoughts on cinema in the context of globality. - Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburg, USA


Author Information

David Martin-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. 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.

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