The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Hardcover

Pisters, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804740275 ISBN 13: 9780804740272

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“...a rigorous, progressive, and thought-provoking study.”—Leonardo Reviews

About the Author:

Patricia Pisters is Professor of Film at the University of Amsterdam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0804740275
• ISBN 13: 9780804740272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288