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Deleuze and Film Dr Teresa Rizzo

Deleuze and Film By Dr Teresa Rizzo

Deleuze and Film by Dr Teresa Rizzo


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Offers a feminist introduction to Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema that proposes a way of thinking about the cinematic viewing experience by exploring it as a bodily and emotional experience. This book introduces Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the assemblage and uses it to understand the relationship between film and viewer.

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Deleuze and Film: A Feminist Introduction by Dr Teresa Rizzo

This is a feminist introduction to Deleuze's work on cinema that proposes a new way of thinking about the cinematic viewing experience. Deleuze and Film: A Feminist Introduction proposes a new way of thinking about cinematic viewing by exploring it as a bodily and emotional experience. The book introduces Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the assemblage and uses it to understand the relationship between film and viewer, showing how Deleuze and Guattari's work can be useful to feminist film theory. Drawing primarily on Deleuze's books on cinema, this book acts as a bridge between early work in feminist film theory and current work in film theory. Does Deleuzian film philosophy offer anything to feminist film theory? Is the focus on spectactorship still relevant in the framework of current film theory? Theorising film viewing in terms of a cinematic assemblage is a radically new approach that focuses on affective and intensive connections between film and viewer and allows a non-binary understanding of difference for the viewing experience. The book thus addresses a key problem in feminist film theory, using Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the assemblage to develop a new framework for thinking about spectatorship.

Deleuze and Film Reviews

A highly readable feminist introduction to Deleuze's Cinema volumes by foregrounding the bodily and affective nature of the cinematic viewing experience ... Rizzo's book is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to both Deleuze and feminist film studies -- Sergey Toymentsey * Film Criticism *
[An] accessible and interesting book ... [Deleuze and Film] provides a compelling method for identifying films that challenge static gender categories. As such, the book will doubtless be a useful tool for feminist researchers wanting to pursue questions of spectatorship -- Janice Loreck, Monash University, Australia * New Review of Film and Television Studies *
'Both an accessible introduction to Deleuze's cinema philosophy and a major advance in feminist film theory, this is a tour de force of lucid and creative thought. Rizzo's focus on the body of the viewer provides a provocative reconfiguration of Deleuze's cinematic taxonomy while opening lines of inquiry beyond the psychoanalytic models and theories of spectatorship currently dominant in film theory. An essential contribution to the field.' -- Ronald Bogue, Distinguished Research Professor at University of Georgia, USA and author of Deleuze on Cinema (Routledge)
'In Deleuze and Film: A Feminist IntroductionTeresa Rizzo presents us with a 'third Deleuze', that is a Deleuze who is a cineaste and a feminist. In this way we are given not only a new and rich introduction to Deleuze's thinking and writing on film, but also a provocative rethinking of his work from the perspectives of gender and film-making. This is an important intervention into the growing body of work on the intersection between Deleuze and cinema.' -- Ian Buchanan, Editor of Deleuze Studies

About Dr Teresa Rizzo

Teresa Rizzo is Lecturer in Screen Studies at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Transcendental Subject; 2. Re-thinking Representation: New Lines of Thought in Feminist Philosophy; 3. Cinematic Assemblages: An Ethological Approach to Film-viewing; 4. The Slasher Film: A Deleuzian Feminist Analysis; 5. The Alien Series: Alien-Becomings, Human-Becomings; 6. The Molecular Poetics of the Assemblage: Before Night Falls; Conclusion: A Feminist Cinematic Assemblage; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9781441113405
9781441113405
1441113401
Deleuze and Film: A Feminist Introduction by Dr Teresa Rizzo
New
Paperback
Continuum Publishing Corporation
2012-06-28
208
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