The Matrix of Visual Culture
豆瓣
Working with Deleuze in Film Theory
PATRICIA PISTERS
Patricia Pisters
简介
This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are "Strange Days," "Fight Club," and "Dancer in the Dark."
contents
Introduction
1. The Universe as Metacinema
Hitchcock's Universe: Zizek and Deleuze 16——Metacinema and the Cinematographic Apparatus 22——Camera Consciousness and Temporal Confusion 33
2. Material Aspects of Subjectivity
Psychoanalysis and the Monstrous Flesh 47——Affects and Politics of the Spinozian Body 55——Plane of Immanence: Subjectivity and Image of the Flesh 61
3. Cinema's Politics of Violence
Violence and Cinema of the Body 79——Missing People and Fabulation 90——Schizophrenia in Contemporary Hollywood 95
4. Conceptual Personae and Aesthetic Figures of Becoming-Woman
The Philosopher Meets Alice in Wonderland 108——Becoming-Woman in Feminism:Alice Doesn't?——Alice in Cinematic Wonderland 120
5. Logic of Sensations in Becoming-Animal
Stories, Sensations, and Affection-Images 142——Becoming-Child Before Becoming-Animal 151——Passive and Active Affects 158
6.(De) Territorializing Forces of the Sound Machine
Acoustic Mirrors and Fantasmatic Structures 177——Rhythm, the Refrain, and (De)Territorialization 185—— The Female Voice: Back on the Throne? 194——Cosmic Forces: Becoming in Music 207
