Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation

This work aims to re-ignite debates about film as an art form - as part of an aesthetic process which incorporates the bodies of our material, technological and molecular worlds. The author suggests that these different perceptions of body are responsible, as well as the brain/mind, for the ways in which visual elements of colour, movement, rhythm and sensation are acquired within, through and beyond our consciousness. Through discussions of Orlando , The English Patient , Romeo and Juliet , Strange Days and Leon , the book posits a creative collusion between Deleuzian philosophy - specifically Deleuze’s ideas about desire, pleasure, sensation, affect and becoming-woman - and contemporary film studies.