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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463370703321

Autore

Rizzo Teresa

Titolo

Deleuze and film : a feminist introduction / / Teresa Rizzo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4411-5562-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6522

Soggetti

Feminism and motion pictures

Feminist film criticism

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements \ 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 \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume proposes a new way of thinking about cinematic viewing by exploring it as a bodily and emotional experience. It introduces Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the assemblage and uses it to understand the relationship between film and viewer.