Deleuze and Cinema

This seminar is devoted to reading Gilles Deleuze’s two volume work on cinema, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, and assessing its impact on and continuing relevance to the study of film and culture. We will screen selected films of significance to Deleuze’s own study of cinema, as well as a few not referenced by him that nonetheless might prove relevant to or provocative in the context of a sustained study of Deleuze’s cinema book. We will read selections from work that influenced Deleuze as well as from the secondary literature on Deleuze and cinema.