Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 13:58:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: _PMC_ article on Deleuze's Cinema


The latest issue of _Postmodern Culture_ (as many of you probably already 
know) has an article on Deleuze's Cinema books.  The abstract follows.

Take care

Jon

Jon Beasley-Murray
Literature Program
Duke University
jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons
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Hassan Melehy, "Images Without: Deleuzian Becoming, Science
Fiction Cinema in the Eighties"

     ABSTRACT: Gilles Deleuze's _Cinema 1_ and _Cinema 2_ are
     integral to the philosopher's career-long projects, as they
     involve a rereading of philosophy in search of its less
     dominant aspects in order to elicit resistance to
     totalizing forces.  Deleuze interprets Henri Bergson's
     notion of the image.  This notion is akin to Deleuze's own
     characterization of the simulacrum in an early essay on
     Plato: the simulacrum turns out to be not so much a false
     representation as what debunks the representation that
     claims to be true.  Deleuze enters the cinema to undo the
     predominance of imposed true images of the world, which
     philosophy has largely accepted since Plato.  Of interest
     in connection with Deleuze is a set of science fiction
     movies released in the 1980s: these films take up questions
     of the cyborg and simulation, raising the anxiety of what
     is real and what human in the age of image-producing
     technology.  The directors addressed are James Cameron,
     John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, and Paul
     Verhoeven.  These movies treat philosophical concepts in
     ways that point to the possibility of reconceiving human
     limits in relation to images and machinery.  --HM

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