Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power: Deleuze via Blanchot
Eugene B. Young, "Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power: Deleuze via Blanchot"
English | ISBN: 1350176095 | 2022 | 344 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1350176095 | 2022 | 344 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art.
Examining Blanchot's suggestion that art and dream are “outside” of power, as imagination has neither reality nor truth, and Foucault's theory that power forms knowledge by valuing life, Eugene Brent Young relates these to both Deleuze's philosophy of time and his work with Guattari on art. In doing so, he uses case studies from literature and popular film, including Kafka's
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