Deleuze and Film : A Feminist Introduction.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- From Lacan to lacuna -- From the cinematic apparatus to cinematic assemblages -- Towards a feminist approach to the film-viewer assemblage -- The films -- 1: The cinematic apparatus and the transcendental subject -- section 1: the cinematic apparatus -- section 2: the transcendental subject -- section 3: Deleuzian possibilities -- 2: Re-thinking representation: New lines of thought in feminist philosophy -- Section 1: Plato's Cave -- Section 2: The body becoming -- 3: Cinematic assemblages: An ethological approach to film viewing -- Section 1: The assemblage -- Key terms in the cinematic assemblage -- Section 2: The cinematic assemblage and the Cinema books -- 4: The slasher film: A Deleuzian feminist analysis -- Section 1: Carol Clover and the modern horror genre -- Section 2: Affective perception: An ethological approach -- Section 3: The film-viewer and affective perception -- 5: The Alien series: Alien-becomings, human-becomings -- Section 1: On screen transformations -- Section 2: The film-viewer assemblage -- 6: The molecular poetics of the assemblage: Before Night Falls -- Section 1: Life as molecular, individuality as haeccaity -- Section 2: Vitality affects and attunement behaviour -- Section 3: The time-image and molecular sexuality -- Conclusion: A feminist cinematic assemblage -- The question of representation -- Image 0f thought -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In the first book-length introduction to Deleuze's work on film from a feminist perspective, Teresa Rizzo ranges across Deleuze's books on Cinema, his other writings, and feminist re-workings of his philosophy to re-think the film viewing experience. More than a commentary on Deleuze's books on Cinema, Rizzo's work addresses a significant gap in film theory, building a bridge between the spectatorship studies and apparatus theories of the 1970s, and new theorisations of the cinematic experience. Developing a concept of a 'cinematic assemblage', the book focuses on affective and intensive connections between film and viewer. Through a careful analysis of a range of film texts and genres that have been important to feminist film scholarship, such as the Alien series and the modern horror film, Rizzo puts Deleuze's key concepts to work in exciting new ways.

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