Cinema 2: The Time-Image

by Gilles Deleuze

Overview

Cinema 2: The Time-Image brings to completion Gilles Deleuze’s work on the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Deleuze proposed a new way to understand narrative cinema, based on Henri Bergson’s notion of the movement-image and C. S. Peirce’s classification of images and signs. In Cinema 2, he explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film: the fragment or solitary image, in supplanting narrative cinema’s rational development of events, illustrates this new significance of time.

Deleuze ascribes this shift to the condition of postwar Europe: the situations and spaces “we no longer know how to describe”—buildings deserted but inhabited, cities undergoing demolition or reconstruction—and the new race of characters who emerged from this rubble, mutants, who “saw rather than acted.” Deleuze discusses the films of Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Antonioni, Pasolini, Rohmer, Ophuls, and many others, suggesting that contemporary cinema, far from being dead, is only beginning to find new ways to capture time in the image.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816616770
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	08/01/1989
Series:	Sources and Studies in Kabbalah
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes-St. Denis. With Félix Guattari, he coauthored Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, and Kafka. He was also the author of The Fold, Cinema 1, Foucault, Kant’s Critical Philosophy, and Essays Critical and Clinical. All of these books are published in English by the University of Minnesota Press.

Editorial Reviews

Brings to completion Deleuze's (philosophy, U. of Paris) work on the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image. Largely based on the writings of Bergson and Peirce, Deleuze's theorizing grapples with intellectual cineaste. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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