Author Archive for: ‘Daniel Fairfax’

Deleuze and World Cinemas

David Martin-Jones Deleuze and World Cinemas London: New York; Continuum, 2011 ISBN: 9780826436429 US$34.95 (pb) 288pp (Review copy supplied by Continuum publishers) The reception of Deleuze’s Cinéma books in academia has, in recent times, definitively entered a new stage. Having swept through the field of Film Studies in the 1990s – and in the process supplanting the earlier semiotic/psychoanalytic paradigm …

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Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition University of Chicago, 2010 ISBN: 9 7802 267266 56 US$25.00 (pb) 408pp (Review copy supplied by University of Chicago Press) It is often said of Histoire(s) du cinéma that its main “character” is Adolph Hitler, due to the frequency with which the man is invoked throughout Godard’s opus. In the …

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