Despite their enormous influence, Deleuze's Cinema books remain difficult and obscure for many readers. David Deamer's 'Three Introductions' to these texts - incorporating philosophical sources, semiotic typologies, and film analyses - provide comprehensive, enlightening pathways into the conceptual background and cinematic specificities of Deleuze's film-philosophy. An impressive achievement.
Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University ... Read moreThis superb new book provides the most comprehensive and user friendly introduction to Deleuze's taxonomy of cinematic images to date. Deleuze's many and complex image categories are each unpacked, clearly, succinctly and with invigorating style, in relation to a wide range of extremely important films from around the world. Deamers' unique approach has the unusual capacity to make you feel amazed, once again, at the genius of Deleuze, but equally, able to think about cinema with Deleuze as though having a chat with a good friend after watching a movie.
David Martin-Jones, University of Glasgow Show Less