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Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance

Powers of Affection

by (author) Elena del Rio

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
May 2012
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780748649419
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $43.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780748635252
    Publish Date
    Jun 2008
    List Price
    $143.00

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Description

This book offers a unique reconsideration of the performing body that privileges the notion of affective force over the notion of visual form at the centre of former theories of spectacle and performativity. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the body, and on Deleuze-Spinoza's relevant concepts of affect and expression,

Elena del Rio examines a kind of cinema that she calls 'affective-performative'. The features of this cinema unfold via detailed and engaging discussions of the movements, gestures and speeds of the body in a variety of films by Douglas Sirk, Rainer W. Fassbinder, Sally Potter, Claire Denis, and David Lynch. Key to the book's engagement with performance is a consistent attention to the body's powers of affection.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Elena del Rio is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.