Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World

Allan James Thomas is Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.

• Acknowledgements * CH 1 Introduction: The Problem of Cinema *A 1.1 Transcendental Empiricism and the ‘Cahiers Axiom’ *A 1.2 The Monotony of Difference *Notes to Chapter 1 *CH 2. The Interval as Disaster *A 2.1 Terminus, or, Waiting for a Train *A 2.2 (Film) History as Montage *A 2.3 Cinema as an Anterior History of Violence *Notes to Chapter 2 *CH 3. Movement, Duration and Difference *A 3.1 The Three Theses on Movement *A 3.2 The Temporalisation of Difference *A 3.3 How to Escape the Dialectic *Notes to Chapter 3 *CH 4. What Use is Cinema to Deleuze? *A 4.1 The Necessary Illusions of Practical Life *A 4.2 A Materialist Practice of Metaphysics *A 4.3 Transcendental Empiricism as Cinematic Philosophy *Notes to Chapter 4 *CH 5. Genesis and Deduction *A 5.1 Cinematic Being *A 5.2 Weak Reasoning, Perversity and Grasping at Threads *A 5.3 From ‘Primitive’ Cinema to Real Movement *Notes to Chapter 5 *CH 6. The Thought of the World *A 6.1 Cinematic Aberration and the ‘Great Kantian Reversal’ *A 6.2 The Classical Cinema as Totalisation *A 6.3 Cinema as ‘Art of the Masses’ *Notes to Chapter 6 *CH 7. The Night, the Rain *A 7.1 Film, Death (the ‘Reverse Proof’) *A 7.2 The Suspension of the World *A 7.3 ‘The Image, the Remains’ *Notes to Chapter 7 *CH 8. Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy *Notes to Chapter 8 *MH List of Works Cited *

The book is compelling and lucid and it will interest students and scholars of film theory as well as those studying Continental philosophy or Deleuze in general. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.