Deleuze and World Cinemas: Transworld Cinema/Transworld Deleuze

by David Martin-Jones

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This title brings Deleuze's writings on cinema into contact with world cinema, drawing on examples ranging from Georges Melies to Michael Mann. "Deleuze's Cinema books" continue to cause controversy. Although they offer radical new ways of understanding cinema, his conclusions often seem strikingly Eurocentric. "Deleuze and World Cinemas" explores what happens when Deleuze's ideas are brought into contact with the films he did not discuss, those from Europe and the USA (from Georges Melies to Michael Mann) and a range of world cinemas - including Bollywood blockbusters, Hong Kong action movies, Argentine melodramas and South Korean science fiction movies. These emergent encounters demonstrate the need for the constant adaptation and reinterpretation of Deleuze's findings if they are to have continued relevance, especially for cinema's contemporary engagement with the aftermath of the Cold War and the global dominance of neoliberal globalization.
  • ISBN10 0826416934
  • ISBN13 9780826416933
  • Publish Date 17 February 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English