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Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection
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Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection Hardcover - 2008

by Elena del Rio


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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 Ro 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.

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  • Title Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection
  • Author Elena del Rio
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Edinburgh University Press
  • Date 2008-06
  • ISBN 9780748635252
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 04/17/2009, Page 21

About the author

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