Books on Cinema

Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher and author of several monographs on Kant, Bergson, Espinosa, Nietzsche and Proust, and he discussed cinema as a serious philosophical matter. Through his two seminal books The Movement-Image and The Time-Image , Deleuze discusses the changes that have been observed in cinema, in the pre and postwar period, the classical and the modern.  The Time-Image is related to the modern cinema. According to Deleuze, after the Second World War, the action-image enters in crisis. It needs to be released from the sensory-motor situations and be replaced by pure optical and sound ones. Images convey a greater sense of solitude, cuts are delayed, characters no longer act, they rather see. Time is presented and felt by the spectator. Among other aspects, Deleuze discusses the depth-of-field in Welles, still lifes in Ozu, memory in Resnais and "crystal-images", that is, portraits of duration where past and present, real and imaginary, act...

Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher and author of several monographs on Kant, Bergson, Espinosa, Nietzsche and Proust, and he discussed cinema as a serious philosophical matter. Through his two seminal books The Movement-Image and The Time-Image , Deleuze discusses the changes that have been observed in cinema, in the pre and postwar period, the classical and the modern.  The images that relate to "the movement-image" are divided into three parts: perception-image (how a character sees an event, mainly exposed in long-shot), affection-image (the emotional experience suffered by a character, close-up) and action-image (how a character interacts with his environment, medium-shot), that is, time is less important than the narrative flow, and each cut, each frame, is part of a constantly moving whole, conveying a simulation of a sensorimotor scheme. The purpose of the montage is to establish a continuous movement. Deleuze also discusses the two structures that domina...