Deleuze and Film

Deleuze and Film engages Deleuze's philosophy with a range of popular films from around the world. It explores the degree to which a film's popular status impacts upon its ability to 'think' (in the manner that Deleuze described in relation to myriad examples of the art of film in his Cinema books), and the global diversity of this cinematic 'thinking' in popular international film.

Whilst Deleuze's Cinema books have become essential reference points for the study of cinema, they continue to cause controversy. Their narrow focus on Hollywood and European art films ensures that Deleuze's conclusions can now seem Eurocentric in relation to the global spread of cinema, and somewhat elitist in light of our expanded knowledge of popular films from around the world. Thus Deleuze and Film brings together scholars from different continents to reconsider his ideas in relation to Japanese Godzilla films, South Korean road movies, Thai westerns, Brazilian and Iranian comedies, Turkish action films, US, European and Australian musicals, and Hollywood's latest CGI blockbusters.

The combination of its popular emphasis alongside its global spread of films, ensures this volume is at the cutting edge of Film Studies scholarship. [Columbia/Edinburgh University Press]

David Martin-Jones is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews.

William Brown is Lecturer in Film at the Roehampton University.