Deleuze on Cinema

Gilles Deleuze has produced some of the most important--and most formidable--theory on cinema to appear in the last half-century. Deleuze on Cinema provides a thorough and reliable guide to Deleuze's thought on the art of film, elucidating in clear language the shape and thrust of Deleuze's arguments found in his influential books on cinema. List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Bergson and Cinema Deleuze's Bergson Three Bergsonian Theses on Movement Image, Movement, Matter, Light The Three Movement-Images 2. Frame, Shot and Montage Frame and Shot Montage: Organic and Dialectic Montage: Quantitative and Intensive 3. Eighteen Signs (More or Less) Pierce and Signs The Perception-Image The Affection-Image The Impulse-Image The Action-Image The Reflection-Image The Relation-Image 4. Hyalosigns: Crystals of Time Opsigns Mnemosigns and Onirosigns Hyalosigns Crystalline States 5. Chronosigns: The Order of Time and Time as Series Sheets of the Past, Peaks of the Present Robbe-Grillet, Welles and Resnais Powers of the False Rouch's Ethnofictions Bodies and Categories 6. Noosigns and Lectosigns: Images and Thought, Sight and Sound The Classic Image of Thought The Thought of the Outside The Spiritual Automaton Silent and Audible Lectosigns The Modern Lectosign A Note on Cinema, Theater and Television Conclusion Works Cited